Philadelphia transit workers strike
Nearly 5,500 workers struck the city and suburban transit and services in Philadelphia on June 1, the fourth in the USA in the Near-arrest system. The strike was provoked by a wide range of economic issues and non-economic, starting with the work and use of sub-Timer to pay the benefits of scale and health. The workers’ contract expired on March 15. The strike affects 435000 passengers, city buses, trolleys and U-Bahn increases, and some commuter rail lines bus.
The June 4 guide of the Transport Workers Union Local 234 proposed to end the strike if management agreed to compulsory conciliation. Officials of the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) rejected the offer. SEPTA request to the management authority to stop and procurement of work and services. A management plan in a study published last spring that SEPTA’s intention public bus service to competition by private companies and seeks to privatize 14.2 percent of the workforce each year.
If the last TWU Struck in 1995, the strike lasted more than two weeks.
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