Sentence examples for passage workers from inspiring English sources

On a recent morning on the far South Side, "safe passage" workers, wearing neon vests and clutching cellphones (ready to dial 911 if need be), lined street corners as students filtered in.

But Harold Davis, the director of an agency that hired 14 Safe Passage workers to stand on the blocks near Curtis, said families from both schools had been holding meetings, working out old disputes.

There was nothing like this last year," Jimenez said, noting she will still be escorting her kids to and from school despite the Safe Passage workers.

A week into the new school year, the Chicago Public Schools' expanded "Safe Passage" program is cautiously being marked a success even amid new reports of Safe Passage workers walking off the job.

In the Roseland neighborhood, the station reports half the safe passage workers quit last week alone and that a designated spot at 119th and State went unmanned Tuesday morning.

Safe Passage workers worry that week one is merely the calm before the storm, however, and Chicago Alderman Scott Waguespack pointed out on the first day of school that the program may not be sustainable for more than a few weeks; police and other city workers involved will eventually have to return to their regular posts.

Across the street, 43-year-old Safe Passage worker Theo Bridges wasn't so much patrolling his beat as pacing it.

Safe Passage worker Theo Bridges stands guard at Halsted Street and Garfield Boulevard in Englewood, one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods.

Even when in possession of documents authorising passage, aid workers are often detained or attacked.

It created a safer passage for workers who have to walk through the area.

But state restaurant lobbies have frequently tried to block or even roll back local increases to the minimum wage, or the passage of worker-friendly legislation like bills mandating paid sick days.