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Rash of assaults cited as House approves transit worker bill
By Colin A. Young
State House news Service
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BOSTON — Transit workers would gain expanded legal protections against assault and battery under a bill the House adopted unanimously Wednesday in response to what Speaker Ronald Mariano described as “growing concerns from transit agencies and labor advocates about the rising number of attacks on workers.”
The MBTA alone reported more than 600 assaults last year, including 33 assaults with weapons, 72 physical assaults and batteries, and 38 assaults and batteries with bodily fluids, Rep. Michael Day said as he introduced the bill that emerged from the Judiciary Committee he chairs.
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