Fault Line  Deal or no deal, transit workers want more respect,
less punishment  Charles Woods, a subway car cleaner for 17
years, was working his regular 9-to-5 shift at the Parsons-
Archer station on May 18 when a train rolled into the landing.
He began collecting trash in the cars he'd been assigned,
picking up a newspaper and a soda can, when a twentysomething
female passenger asked him for help.  "She wanted to go to East
New York, but she took the wrong train," Woods recalls. She was
nervous, he says. "I had to calm her down—'It's OK. It's OK.
You're not lost.' " She told him she couldn't read the map well,
but would understand how to find her way if he could explain. He
did. It took all of two minutes, Woods claims.  This good deed
could have cost him his job.  Respect for everyone: J.P. Patafio
on the picket line in Brooklyn photo: Steven Sunshine  Last
Wednesday, if Woods hadn't been on strike with 33,700 other
transit workers, he would have attended an arbitration hearing
over a disciplinary notice h