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After months of negotiations and an assist from President Bush, 195 locomotive engineers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) have a new contract. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET)-represented workers recently ratified a five-year collective bargaining agreement.
The contract provides engineers a $1,000 signing bonus and annual wage increases of 3 percent. Beginning in August 2008, workers will pay 1 percent of their weekly wages to cover health-care costs.
“In addition to wage increases, we won a significant change in the pay awarded to engineers for the their federally required certification,” said Richard Dixon, general chairman of the union’s SEPTA general committee of adjustment, in a prepared statement. “Instead of a $4 a day flat fee, they will now receive a 50 cent per hour increase for the certification.”
Last month, President Bush established an emergency board to help settle a collective bargaining dispute between SEPTA and BLET, which had been ongoing since August 2005. The agency and union reached an agreement after one meeting with the board.
8/24/2006
Rail News: Passenger Rail
BLET-represented SEPTA engineers ratify five-year contract
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After months of negotiations and an assist from President Bush, 195 locomotive engineers at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) have a new contract. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET)-represented workers recently ratified a five-year collective bargaining agreement.
The contract provides engineers a $1,000 signing bonus and annual wage increases of 3 percent. Beginning in August 2008, workers will pay 1 percent of their weekly wages to cover health-care costs.
“In addition to wage increases, we won a significant change in the pay awarded to engineers for the their federally required certification,” said Richard Dixon, general chairman of the union’s SEPTA general committee of adjustment, in a prepared statement. “Instead of a $4 a day flat fee, they will now receive a 50 cent per hour increase for the certification.”
Last month, President Bush established an emergency board to help settle a collective bargaining dispute between SEPTA and BLET, which had been ongoing since August 2005. The agency and union reached an agreement after one meeting with the board.
