Station safety

As station agents get sick frequently one wonders where the station department safety inspectors are? What are they doing? Why are they missing in action? Why are there no answers about the station agents who are getting sick frequently or what is the root cause? It is obvious from John E Samuelsen president of TWU Local 100 Take Backward Our Union - TBOU will claim he is not aware of such ailments thus he should be afforded the benefit of doubt. Maybe he may use a defense that those elected officers from the station department have dropped the ball of not informing him or taking the matter seriously. Or he may say they never requested safety inspectors to be released.

We here in why did you join the union do not agree with John E Sameulsen’s explanation. Safety in addition to the health of station agents must be taken seriously just as his - here is why. First they are locked in a booth and second their source of air is the air conditioner which can pose a problem. Lets imagine that a nearby building has asbestos then the question is can that asbestos find its way to the inside of the booth? Is that possible? Also the chairs that they sit on may not have proper back support, lower back support or lumbar support. 

Vermin are known to carry diseases that are harmful to human beings. Maybe John E Samuelsen president of TWU Local 100 Take Backward Our Union - TBOU will claim that station departments don't need released safety inspectors for rats, mice and cockroaches but rather that those station agents should swat the vermin themselves.