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.
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]
The woman at the controls of a Chicago Transit Authority train that crashed at O'Hare Airport had worked 69 hours in the seven days before the accident.
Brittney T. Haywood, 25, from Chicago, said she dozed off at the controls Monday when the train crashed into the terminal and rode up the escalator.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
A Boy Named Sue.
“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?????
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.
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.
A bit faster, he/she would have made it all the way up the escalator.
Less than 10 hrs. a day? Come, now, my friend.
GD women drivers!
Similar to gaining position within a river pilot operation controlling the Mississippi SW pass run with New Orleans.
69 hour workweek. Think of the ovatime!
7 days without rest makes one week.
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
Ovaltine
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.
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