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RandySF

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Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:36 PM Jun 2014

Transit sickout causing delays across San Francisco

As San Francisco commuters slogged their way home Monday on a transit system hobbled by the unscheduled absences of most of its operators, city transportation officials moved to stop the apparent sickout from moving into a second day. A memo e-mailed to employees and posted in yards warned workers who had called in sick that they'll need doctors' notes to get paid.

"Operators claiming to be sick today, or in connection with any future 'sickout,' will be required to submit adequate verification from their health care provider in order to be eligible to receive paid sick leave," said a memo from Alicia John-Baptiste, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency's chief of staff.

Muni did not provide specific figures on the number of operators who called in sick for their scheduled Monday shifts, but MTA spokesman Paul Rose said 400 of the 600 Muni vehicles normally on the streets were not in service during both the morning and evening commutes.

It was not clear Monday evening whether the protest, which was not officially organized or sanctioned by the operators' union, Transport Workers Local 250-A, would continue into a second day. Rose said Muni wasn't likely to know until early Tuesday morning.

During the evening commute, Muni deployed most of its depleted fleet downtown in an effort to clear out the busy Market Street corridor, where typically crowded stops, buses and rail cars were overwhelmed with frustrated commuters both in the subway and above ground.


http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Muni-sickout-causing-delays-across-city-5522044.php

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