Daily News | SEPTA’s largest union wants more police on public transit
As contract negotiations between SEPTA and its largest union begin Thursday, leaders of Transport Workers Local 234 say the talks will be shaped by the transit system’s looming fiscal crisis, public safety challenges and slow-to-recover ridership as much as traditional labor disputes over pay and benefits.
“Point blank and period: These negotiations are about the survival of the system,” Brian Pollitt, president of TWU Local 234, said in an interview with The Inquirer. SEPTA budgeteers expect to exhaust the last $312 million of the agency’s federal pandemic relief, which has kept the trains and buses running, by next April. CEO Leslie S. Richards has
unless passenger fare revenue increases and Harrisburg lawmakers establish a permanent source of state funding for transit systems.expires October 31.Several other SEPTA unions are also due for new contracts this year: the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen , which represents Regional Rail engineers, and the union representing Regional Rail conductors; as well as the Fraternal Order of Transit Police Lodge 109.
Amid those stakes, TWU leaders will make a proposal to boost law enforcement on the city’s Broad Street and Market Frankford Lines, possibly augmenting Transit Police and Philadelphia police with state patrols, said Bruce Bodner, general counsel for the union.
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