 When a Metro shutdown last week stranded passengers for hours, “union members stepped in and made sure that what could have been a dangerous ordeal was safe and orderly for the passengers caught in the tunnel,” reports AFL-CIO staffer Kenneth Quinnell on the AFL-CIO Now blog. “Train operators kept us in the know with announcements, and WMATA employees, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689, periodically came through the trains to check on us and make sure no one had an emergency…After about an hour and a half, the lights went out in the train, but nearly instantly firefighters and EMS personnel, from Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 36, jumped into action, opening our car door and directing us out of the train and the quarter of a mile on foot to the Georgia Avenue station…So on behalf of the hundreds of people who were helped out of the trains trapped in the tunnels, we'd like to thank the firefighters, transit employees and EMS workers who helped make sure that a five-hour train stoppage was limited to a two-hour, well-handled and safe evacuation.”photo via PoPville/Twitter
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