Regional Rail engineers and conductors say low wages are contributing to employee shortages. SEPTA is in an intensive round of talks with TWU Local 234, which represents transit operators.
A SEPTA Regional Rail conductor helps commuters at 30th Street Station during evening rush hour on the third day of the 2016 SEPTA strike.
on Monday. He said the union’s negotiators intend to “lock ourselves” there for the week, meeting 24 hours a day if necessary. “SEPTA owes us, and we’re coming to collect,” said Ray Boyer, general chairman of SMART-TD Local 61, representing about 481 conductors and assistant conductors. The local has been in talks with the agency for 18 months, also working with a federal mediator, with no result, Boyer said.
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