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Article: Union Says Death of New York Subway-Track Workers Was 'Negligent Homicide'.
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- Daily News (New York, NY)
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- December 3, 2002
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Byline: Pete Donohue
Dec. 3--The recent deaths of two subway track workers were not accidents but crimes, transit union officials charged yesterday.
Union officials met with a Manhattan prosecutor yesterday to demand a grand jury investigation into the Nov. 21 death of Joy Antony and the death of Baby Kurien the next night.
"It's our belief that these were flat-out cases of negligent homicide on the part of New York City Transit," said John Samuelsen, an official with Transport Workers Union Local 100. "They [transit officials] were given prior notice that there was a condition that could result in the loss of life, and they failed to take ...