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SEPTA, TWU Local 234 reach tentative contract deal; no strike this holiday season
The agreement includes 3.5% annual wage increases, pension enhancements, and benefits improvements after Gov. Shapiro's intervention ended a negotiation stalemate.
- SEPTA and Transport Workers Union Local 234 reached a tentative two-year deal on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, averting a strike that would have halted SEPTA service during the holiday season.
- Union leaders warned of an imminent strike after working without a contract since Nov. 7, 2025, and members authorized a walkout, as of Friday.
- The agreement contains an across-the-board 3.5 percent wage increase each year, raises the night-shift differential, adds benefits kicking in after 90 days, and Will Vera, TWU Local 234 President, called it a retention contract.
- Officials say the deal should stabilise staffing and service reliability for a weekday average of 790,000 riders and more than 51,000 students who rely on SEPTA daily.
- The agreement now goes to members for ratification, and the SEPTA Board will consider it later this month; both sides credited Governor Josh Shapiro's intervention, and the local's executive board approved the deal.
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SEPTA and its largest workers union reach deal to avoid a strike in Philadelphia
SEPTA and its largest workers union have reached a contract agreement, preventing a strike that would have halted Philadelphia's mass transit in the middle of the holiday season.
·Philadelphia, United States
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