Metro-North Fires Conductors For Cheating On Safety Test

PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. -- Nine first-year Metro-North Railroad conductors were fired and three others were reassigned after they were caught cheating on a safety test during a training session, according to the New York Daily News.

Nine rookie Metro-North conductors were fired after they were caught cheating on a safety exam.
Photo Credit: *Danny LoPriore*

Joe Jenkins

07/02/2014 10:30 a.m.

One or more of the conductors gained access to a written safety exam, photographed the questions with a smartphone and shared it with other members of the training program, the Daily News said.

The nine conductors who were fired had less than a year of experience and thus did not have union protections. The three on reassignment were demoted to their previous titles, the Daily News reported.

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