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1/4/2021
The Port Authority of Allegheny County's board last month approved a two-year contract with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 85, which represents the Pittsburgh agency’s light-rail operators, maintenance and service personnel, administrative employees and first-level supervisors.
The contract calls for 2.75% wage increases in both years of the contract at a total cost of $7.8 million. Also under the contract, the health insurance carrier for retirees who are at least 65 years old will be changed, resulting in a savings of $10 million to the port authority over the next two years, port authority officials said in a press release.
The contract extends protections to non-operations employees who are assaulted while on duty, and includes various work rule changes that are expected to save the authority $1 million, they said.
The contract is retroactive to July 1, 2020, and extends through June 30, 2022. The previous four-year contract expired June 30, 2020.