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The Chief-Leader/Michel Friang LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT: Emmanuel Belizaire (left), a Structure Maintainer with New York City Transit, joined the agency in 1999 through an apprenticeship program that promised to teach him carpentry and construction skills during a three-year training period. Instead, Mr. Belizaire and 19 other young workers were reassigned as Station Cleaners in 2005. Gregory McDonald, vice chairman of the Structure Division for Transport Workers' Union Local 100 has been working with the group in an effort to get them back on their preferred jobs.