“I don’t want to strike, but we’ll do it if we have to. The clock is ticking,' said the union president.
“I don’t want to strike, but we’ll do it if we have to. The clock is ticking," said the union president.
Starting Monday, negotiators for the transit agency and the union will sequester in a hotel conference room for marathon bargaining on a new contract for the operators, mechanics, cashiers and maintenance people who make Philadelphia’s transit run.“The members gave me the green light,” Pollitt said. “I don’t want to strike, but we’ll do it if we have to. The clock is ticking.
A commercial driver’s license is “a gold mine in your pocket,” Pollitt said, adding a rookie operator with one could make about $28 an hour to start at UPS, FedEx or Amazon. “And they don’t have to deal with all the problems of working in mass transit.” SEPTA and the state’s other public transit agencies are pushing for the legislature to adopt a measure that would give them: the Fraternal Order of Transit Police, Lodge 109; the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, Division 71, which represents Regional Rail engineers; and the union that represents conductors on the commuter-rail system, Local 61 of the International Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union .
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