(Source: The Chief Leader, May 12, 2020)
NEW YORK — The unions that represent the workers who run the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) commuter railroad connecting New York and New Jersey are pressing for testing for COVID19, hazard pay and a death benefit after losing one of their own to the virus last month. Art Blakey, grandson of the jazz artist, leads PATH’s Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. He said that when it came to COVID-19 workplace protections, unions couldn’t take “no” for an answer. Mr. Blakey also said that the regional shelter-in-place orders in place in New Jersey and New York produced a spike in the number of homeless riding PATH trains. “There are even more homeless on the train now—20 to 30 on a train,” he said during a phone interview. “That’s another path of potential exposure for our members.”
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