With roughly 5,000 members, Local 234 represents bus, subway, and trolley operators, mechanics, cashiers, maintenance people, and custodians. It is SEPTA’s largest bargaining unit.
Otis Barnes, a SEPTA bus operator, picks up a picket sign at the TWU Local 234 hall in Northern Liberties Monday. Employees are preparing for a strike that could come as early as Friday morning.“Two Thirty Four,” members of Philadelphia’s Transport Workers local union chanted as they gathered armfuls of picket signs Monday night, preparing for
“We don’t want to go out, but we’ve got to stand up,” said Bob Gillespie, a SEPTA bus operator in the Northeast with 30 years on the job. “We have to stand for what we believe in. Hopefully we can get this worked out.”, after their current contract expires at midnight — and named safety and security as their number one issue. The vote does not mean the union would immediately walk.
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