Mr. Kevin Harrington

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  www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/03/2007-05-03_in_line_ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/3/2007    Last Visited: 5/3/2007  

  Kevin Harrington, a vice chairman with Transport Workers Union Local 100, said the law needs to be amended.
  
  "This guy joined the U.S. Marine Corps when Marines were being killed in Lebanon and other places," he said.

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  "It's still there, it's still on the books, and what it does, it keeps Sikhs from wanting to work here, because it makes the workplace look like it's bigoted, and not accepting of diversity," said MTA train operator Kevin Harrington.

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  Published on: 6/4/2008    Last Visited: 6/4/2008  

  For pure chutzpa, you've got to hand it to Kevin Harrington, an Irish-American Sikh from the Bronx.He wore his turban and a full beard for years as a train operator for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, but was told in 2004 to put on an official MTA cap.
  
  He fought and eventually won a concession.He can wear his turban, but it has to have an MTA insignia on it.He's suing.

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  Published on: 7/18/2005    Last Visited: 8/19/2007  

  The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) may require Kevin Harrington (Sat Hari Singh), a member of the Sikh faith, to remove his religiously-required turban in order to maintain his job as a subway train operator.
  
  Mr. Harrington has worked as an MTA train operator for over twenty years while wearing his turban.On June 7, 2004, the MTA ordered Mr. Harrington to take a job in an MTA yard, away from public view, because he would not remove his turban.After a public outcry, the MTA rescinded the order the next day, reinstating him to his train operator job.However, on June 15, 2004, in a letter to Mr. Harrington's union, the MTA stated that it will likely require Mr. Harrington in September 2004 to choose a job in the yard again because he wears religious headdress instead of an MTA hat.

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  Published on: 6/11/2004    Last Visited: 6/11/2004  

  Mr Kevin Harrington, a 53-year old Sikh who has been a train driver for more than 20 years, has been banned from ferrying passengers.
  
  The reason: He refused to wear a New York Transit Authority (TA) cap instead of his turban.
  
  A supervisor broke the news and told Mr Harrington, a convert to the Sikh religion, that he would be moving trains instead, reported the New York Daily News.
  
  His new duty took effect on Tuesday.
  
  Mr Harrington said: 'I'm very angry.I feel it's a betrayal on their part, and I consider it a violation of my freedom of religion.'
  
  He said he was told last week that he had to wear the official TA cap if he wanted to continue driving trains.
  
  Mr Harrington has been working for the TA for 23 years, the last 20 as a driver.
  
  He said he had been wearing a turban when he was first hired, and when he was promoted from cleaner to driver.
  
  A TA spokesman confirmed that Mr Harrington had been told he could wear only the official cap and not his turban while ferrying passengers, but declined to comment further.
  
  Union officials were outraged with the decision.

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  Coalition Defends Sikhs - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2005    Last Visited: 9/24/2009  

  CCR and the Sikh Coalition also a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Kevin Harrington, a Sikh subway train operator who has been forced to wear an MTA logo on his turban since January.
  
  "The MTA honored me for driving my train in reverse away from the towers on 9/11 and leading passengers to safety. They called me a 'hero of 9/11,'" said plaintiff Kevin Harrington.
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  Kevin led his passengers to safety during the 9/11 attacks, and no one had problems recognizing him as an MTA employee then.
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  The trouble between the MTA and its Sikh employees began in June 2004 when the MTA ordered Mr. Harrington to either remove his turban or be reassigned to an MTA rail yard. Mr. Harrington had worked for the MTA for more than two decades prior to the new order.
  
  After reconsideration of its policy, the MTA allowed Sikhs to wear turbans last fall. Nevertheless, its new policy required Sikh and Muslim employees to brand their religious headdresses with its logo. Mr. Harrington has complied with the policy under protest and fear of reassignment to an MTA rail yard.

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  Kevin Harrington
  
  Vice Chair

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  Published on: 7/15/2005    Last Visited: 7/15/2005  

  CCR and the Coalition also filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Kevin Harrington, a Sikh subway train operator who has been forced to wear an MTA logo on his turban since January.
  
  "The MTA honored me for driving my train in reverse away from the towers on 9/11 and leading passengers to safety.They called me a 'hero of 9/11,'" said plaintiff Kevin Harrington.
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  Kevin led his passengers to safety during the 9/11 attacks, and no one had problems recognizing him as an MTA employee then.And no passenger is going to be confused about whether a station agent sitting in a token booth works for the MTA, either," said Shayana Kadidal, staff attorney at CCR.
  
  The trouble between the MTA and its Sikh employees began in June 2004 when the MTA ordered Mr. Harrington to either remove his turban or be reassigned to an MTA rail yard.Mr. Harrington had worked for the MTA for more than two decades prior to the new order.
  
  After reconsideration of its policy, the MTA allowed Sikhs to wear turbans last fall.Nevertheless, its new policy required Sikh and Muslim employees to brand their religious headdresses with its logo.Mr. Harrington has complied with the policy under protest and fear of reassignment to an MTA rail yard.

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  Greenwich Time - Sikh train operator forced to wear... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/6/2005    Last Visited: 1/6/2005  

  It's a simple MTA patch, but when Sikh subway operator Kevin Harrington grudgingly tied it to the front of his turban for the first time yesterday - faced with demotion if he didn't - it felt like blasphemy.
  
  "Nobody puts advertisements on St. Patrick's ,Cathedral, or on nuns' habits or on Jewish people's tallises," said Harrington, who drives the No. 4 train and faces the thorny option of either donning the patch with the agency's logo or being transferred to a rail yard, which comes with irregular hours.
  
  His choice is the latest tussle in a six-month fight with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, pitting what he says is religious persecution against what the agency says is workplace uniformity.
  
  MTA officials see the patch and the color-coordinated turban they gave him as a compromise offered after the agency backed down from its ruling in June that Harrington couldn't wear a turban at all, only an official MTA cap.The ruling had come after Harrington wore a turban for 25 years at NYC Transit.
  
  To Harrington, 53, who became a Sikh almost 30 years ago, wearing the familiar blue-and-white logo on his turban is discriminatory, especially when he says other workers routinely get away with wearing plain caps with no MTA insignia.
  
  He is joining a lawsuit against the agency brought by four Muslim city bus drivers transferred to working in depots.
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  Harrington said he has wavered about whether to wear the patch, even consulting with five religious elders who advised him to listen to himself.
  
  He said he wore the patch yesterday and would likely continue to do so for now only because if he is forced to work in the rail yard, he might miss being home in time to meet his 9- and 12-year-old children after school.
  
  "It just feels stupid," he said.

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  Published on: 8/31/2004    Last Visited: 7/22/2005  

  CCR and the Coalition also filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Kevin Harrington, a Sikh subway train operator who has been forced to wear an MTA logo on his turban since January."The MTA honored me for driving my train in reverse away from the towers on 9/11 and leading passengers to safety.They called me a 'hero of 9/11,'" said plaintiff Kevin Harrington.
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  Kevin led his passengers to safety during the 9/11 attacks, and no one had problems recognizing him as an MTA employee then.And no passenger is going to be confused about whether a station agent sitting in a token booth works for the MTA, either," said Shayana Kadidal, staff attorney at CCR.The trouble between the MTA and its Sikh employees began in June 2004 when the MTA ordered Mr. Harrington to either remove his turban or be reassigned to an MTA rail yard.Mr. Harrington had worked for the MTA for more than two decades prior to the new order.After reconsideration of its policy, the MTA allowed Sikhs to wear turbans last fall.Nevertheless, its new policy required Sikh and Muslim employees to brand their religious headdresses with its logo.Mr. Harrington has complied with the policy under protest and fear of reassignment to an MTA rail yard.

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