“You’ll never take me alive, Copper!”
All union members ?
My guess is these loyal union employees were not kicking back enough up the line.
Nearly the entire staff of the LIRR are crooks in one way or the other. Until very recently, about 90% of retirees were claiming and receiving disability pay for life (on top of the generous pension they already get) when they retired. Many have already plead guilty to this fraud.
Many conductors (ticket takers) make $150K to 200K (one made $239,000 in 2010)through an overtime scheme (totally legal in the union contract) a year for doing a job that requires barely minimum wage skills.
Working behind the counter at Taco Bell require far more skills than walking up and down a train aisle saying, “tickets please”.
“I’ve been stealin on the railroad, all the live-long day.”