Fixed News Wrote:
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> Metro workers are threatening a "sick out" for
> this weekend. Sources tell News4 that Metro
> employees have been telling their supervisors they
> will not be going to work Friday.
>
> Metro management and its largest union, ATU Local
> 689, are in a tense and ugly contract dispute. A
> union spokesman told News4 that members are
> "outraged" at the negotiations over the contract.
>
> According to their contract, however, union
> members are not permitted to strike.
>
> "Given the climate the [general manager] has set
> at WMATA, the union is looking at every possible
> legal tactic to get his attention," union
> spokesman David Stephen told News4.
>
> Nonetheless, supervisors are being told to be
> ready for 12-hour shifts.
>
> "Due to the threat of a sick out for [ATU Local]
> 689 employees[,] all supervisors are required to
> work 12 hour shifts starting Friday April 28,
> 2017-April 30, 2017," according to an email sent
> to Metro supervisors Tuesday.
>
> A Metro spokesperson said there has been an
> "unusually" high number of absence requests for
> this weekend.
>
>
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Metro-Work
> ers-Threatening-Sick-Out-This-Weekend-420399893.ht
> ml#ixzz4fIoVAV8W
Hahhahahhha! What would be the difference?
http://unsuckdcmetro.blogspot.com/2011/08/im-only-sleeping.html
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