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All of these would ordinarily be legitimate grounds for concern and objection.  All of these would normally be appropriate for a union to protest.  The problem is WMATA-ATU.  They have become the unitary enemy of the public in this region.  Metro doesn’t have plant problems - it has HR crises.  Metro doesn’t have logistics issues - it has HR issues.  The escalators aren’t broken - the problem is the escalator people and escalator managers.  The ATU, like WMATA management, doesn’t seem to understand that the public has just had it with them, and would be perfectly happy to see the union broken and all managers fired.  A controlled and well-implemented period of WMATA shutdown so as to completely re-staff would be welcomed by most people in the area.  [/quote]

On another note, escalator/elevator maintenance and replacement is now contracted out to a company called KONE, they're not worked on by WMATA-ATU employees anymore:

https://www.wmata.com/service/status/details/arlington-escalator-replacement.cfm[/quote]

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