Reinstate CTA Customer Assistant Kendra Now

Recent signers:
Darnisha Martin and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Sister Kendra, a 13-Year Customer Assistant at the Chicago Transit Authority needs our support to help her fight for her and others' jobs right now. Simply put, she was put "out of service" or laid off simply for fighting cancer.
 

  • She was forced to do a "safety tour" a year earlier than the require 2-year cylcle (which gives her barely enough time to heal from the chemotherapy port in her chest which will pop out if she climbs a rail car stirrup).
  • Climbing rail car stirrups is nowhere in the job description or CTA Standard Operating Procedures.
  • She has exhausted FMLA privileges.
  • The CTA refuses to accommodate her like they do for friends of managers and union officials. 



By signing this petition, you are supporting Kendra and sending a strong message to the CTA that such practices are inhumane. Sign to demand that the CTA bring Kendra back to work now!

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Recent signers:
Darnisha Martin and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Sister Kendra, a 13-Year Customer Assistant at the Chicago Transit Authority needs our support to help her fight for her and others' jobs right now. Simply put, she was put "out of service" or laid off simply for fighting cancer.
 

  • She was forced to do a "safety tour" a year earlier than the require 2-year cylcle (which gives her barely enough time to heal from the chemotherapy port in her chest which will pop out if she climbs a rail car stirrup).
  • Climbing rail car stirrups is nowhere in the job description or CTA Standard Operating Procedures.
  • She has exhausted FMLA privileges.
  • The CTA refuses to accommodate her like they do for friends of managers and union officials. 



By signing this petition, you are supporting Kendra and sending a strong message to the CTA that such practices are inhumane. Sign to demand that the CTA bring Kendra back to work now!

avatar of the starter
ERIC BASIRPetition StarterThe Boogeyman. Harbinger of Doom for Business Unionists. Feared, Loved and Hated in Equal Portions throughout the ATU. Extreme Democracy. Preacher of Radical Revolutionary Unionism. The Black Joe Hill.

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Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago Transit Authority
CTA Board of Directors
CTA Board of Directors
CTA Human Resources Department
CTA Human Resources Department

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Petition created on May 2, 2026