Negotiations Continue As SEPTA Strike Looms; Midnight Deadline

[brooklynite]

Source: WPVI

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Negotiations to avert a strike that would affect SEPTA bus, trolley, and subway riders continued Monday ahead of a midnight deadline.

The talks at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in Center City, which went on through the weekend, were described as tense.


5,700 of SEPTA's unionized workers are threatening to go on strike. At issue are healthcare, pension and non-economic issues like schedules, break times and driver fatigue.

Sources say the two sides were "tens of millions of dollars apart."

The union's contract ends Monday at midnight. At 12:01 Tuesday morning, a massive strike could begin that would impact over 400,000 riders.

Read more: http://6abc.com/travel/no-deal-yet-as-septa-strike-looms;-negotiations-tense/1577465/

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I sure hope they are able resolve this

or it will be really rough tomorrow. As it is, the regional rail system portion of Septa (different union) had 1/3 of its cars out of service over the summer to fix a major structural defect in the train axles, and that finally got resolved and came back to normal at the beginning of October.