What About Our Children, Nora?
This very positive initiative for child-size benches at CTA rail stations can definitely help improve our employer's marginal public reputation. I applaud the effort. However, it makes me wonder… What about the children of CTA workers? They ride the trains and buses too! What is [Acting] President Leerhsen doing about the people I represent who are constantly written up, suspended and terminated for needing to care for children that are sick? What is [Acting] President Leerhsen doing to stop her underlings from breaking Illinois Law ( Public Act 103-0797 ) as they punish the CTA workers that miss work because they must take a sick child to the hospital? What about the CTA worker who must stay home talk a child out of taking their own life? As it stands, these people are being punished by [Acting] President Leerhsen and her underlings. I can tell the world that she and the attorneys in the CTA Lie Department refused to honor the law in a grievance I submitted (w...
