SEPTA Strike Averted in Last-Minute Deal with Transit Workers Union - Philadelphia Inquirer
A tentative contract deal between SEPTA and its largest employee union, Transport Workers Local 234, stopped in its tracks on Wednesday a strike that would have snarled travel in the Philadelphia region, disrupting schools, workplaces and commerce.
Reaching agreement, also averts what would have been a history-making “mega strike” of roughly 14,000 public-sector union members in transit and city services.
TWU members will get a 5% raise in a 1-year contract, as well as an unspecified pension adjustment, according to people familiar with the deal. There also is language guaranteeing measures to improve personal safety amid attacks on frontline transit workers and fears of violence, but those details could not be immediately learned.
