Termination warranted for insubordination

The grievor did not respond to a co-worker who tried to flag down the grievor's bus between stops. When management tried to investigate the matter, he was at first unco-operative and later verbally disrespectful. He was blameless for the failure to stop the bus, but his later tirade warranted termination.

A transit worker was conditionally reinstated following an incident of alleged unprofessional conduct. He was fired three months later following an altercation with a supervisor. The union grieved both the termination and the discipline from the earlier incident.

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