turbans… <del>wmd?</del> wwjd?
Utter nonsense.
A veteran Sikh subway motorman has been reassigned after being told by a supervisor he couldn’t drive passenger trains while wearing a turban....
The Bronx resident has been a motorman for 20 of the 23 years he has worked for the TA. He said he wore a turban when he was hired, when he was promoted to motorman from cleaner and for every trip he has taken on the rails.
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“The TA’s obsession with religious headgear is an attempt to exploit 9/11 and promote hysteria,” Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint said.
“Having embarked on a bad course … by going after Muslim women bus operators, now they are making matters worse by going after Brother Harrington, a Sikh, who has been operating trains for two decades. We intend to take every available avenue to respond to these attacks.”
SOURCE
11 August 2004, 13:06 ::
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