Big Decision Looming For SEPTA Employees As Union Fights For Better Wages For Its Workers

By Wakisha Bailey, CBS Philadelphia

October 24, 2021

SEPTA employees have a big decision to make on Sunday. The union wants better wages for workers and if they don’t get it, walking off the job could be their next move.

Union workers will get an update from their president as to how talks with SEPTA are going. If they vote to go on strike, that means public transportation could be interrupted in the next couple of weeks across the Philadelphia region.

Members of the transport workers union will vote to strike if a fair agreement with SEPTA is not moving in the right direction. The group is fighting for maternity leave, pay to families of transit workers who lost their lives to COVID-19, enhanced police presence for safer conditions for riders and workers and better wages.

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