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Train Operator Behind O'Hare Crash Identified
nbc news ^ | 3/28/2014 | Phil Rogers

Posted on 03/29/2014 4:12:56 AM PDT by fulltlt

Edited on 03/29/2014 4:23:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Reeses

A Boy Named Sue.


41 posted on 03/29/2014 7:32:23 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: fulltlt

“This girl is torn to pieces over this. . . I walked away, actually, with a new, totally different amount of respect for this woman. She couldn’t lie if she wanted to,” said Robert Kelly, president, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308.

What?????


42 posted on 03/29/2014 8:09:36 AM PDT by WildWeasel
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To: Mister Da
"I want to know how late she was tweeting & twerking, & how much sleep she had the night before."

Ya twerk your right foot in
Ya tweet your right foot out
Ya twerk your right foot in
And you twick it all about
You do the tweety twerky
And you spin yourself around
That's what it's all about.

43 posted on 03/29/2014 8:10:05 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise
They got a program for that now.

Ya twerk your right foot in
Ya tweet your right foot out
Ya twerk your right foot in
And you twick it all about
You do the tweety twerky
And you spin yourself around
That's what it's all about.

44 posted on 03/29/2014 8:37:07 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: fulltlt

A bit faster, he/she would have made it all the way up the escalator.

45 posted on 03/29/2014 9:52:05 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: rdcbn

Less than 10 hrs. a day? Come, now, my friend.


46 posted on 03/29/2014 10:25:42 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: fulltlt

GD women drivers!


47 posted on 03/29/2014 10:29:49 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: rdcbn

Similar to gaining position within a river pilot operation controlling the Mississippi SW pass run with New Orleans.


48 posted on 03/29/2014 12:22:56 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: fulltlt; GeronL; Revolting cat!

69 hour workweek. Think of the ovatime!


49 posted on 03/29/2014 12:26:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Artie

7 days without rest makes one week.


50 posted on 03/29/2014 12:27:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: fulltlt

According to federal investigators, the driver of the CTA train that crashed had dozed off at the controls during a different CTA run on February 1. That driver was given a written warning according to the transit authority after they say she claimed only to have momentarily “closed her eyes.”

Haywood has posted pictures of herself at a CTA stop with the notation: “Come on 9:00 boring platform no action.” It was posted when she was working as a rail flagman, which is how these current CTA records still have her listed, at a pay of $13.31 per hour. She was hired about a year ago and attended train motorman school in December.

The transit union president says they will fight for the driver to stay on the job but he would not disclose or comment on the driver’s identity.

“This girl is torn to pieces over this. . . I walked away, actually, with a new, totally different amount of respect for this woman. She couldn’t lie if she wanted to,” said Robert Kelly, president, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308.

After the news conference, Kelly told the I-Team he was unaware of Haywood’s most recent arrest, on a misdemeanor gambling charge last September when she was employed by the CTA. That criminal charge dismissed in November, the month before she began motorman training.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=9483808


51 posted on 03/29/2014 12:47:43 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: a fool in paradise

Ovaltine


52 posted on 03/29/2014 12:51:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: ronnie raygun

I’ve worked in Union shops at 3 companies and never has the Union hired or set how much overtime was worked. In fact the company would push for mandatory overtime which the Union fought against. The Company said they would rather have us work overtime rather than hire more employees. I think because I ran 2 machining centers and was paid $30.00 and they were charging S180.00 an hour for each machine, $360.00 total. That why they still found it profitable to pay me $60.00 when I was getting doubletime.


53 posted on 03/29/2014 8:09:27 PM PDT by zorkon128
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