Politics & Government
Emergency Board Sides with SEPTA Management in Labor Dispute
The emergency board, appointed in June after a one-day strike, said the rail workers should get the same 11.5 percent raises as bus drivers and subway operators.
An emergency board appointed by President Obama to mediate the SEPTA Regional Rail labor dispute has sited with the management.
The emergency board, appointed in June after a one-day strike, said the rail workers should get the same 11.5 percent raises as bus drivers and subway operators, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In June, President Obama signed an executive order appointing an emergency board to mediate the long-running labor dispute. The intervention ended a one-day strike that halted service on SEPTA's 13 Regional Rail lines.
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More than 400 workers participated in the strike, the first in 31 years.
Regional Rail employees want a 14.5 percent raise over five years, which is about 3 percentage points more than SEPTA has offered.
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SEPTA's Regional Rail engineers have been working without a contract since 2010; the electricians have not had a contract since 2009.
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