By Steve Tawa
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – While negotiations between SEPTA and its largest union continue, its labor contract with Transport Workers Union Local 234 expires at midnight, tonight.
The TWU represents 5,200 workers in SEPTA’s City Division, including bus, subway, and trolley operators, but its members have not taken a strike authorization vote.
Neither SEPTA management nor union leaders are characterizing the state of negotiations, preferring to lay low publicly.
A SEPTA spokeswoman says they ‘hope to avoid a work stoppage,’ but the transit agency does have a service interruption plan in place.
A union spokesman says there ‘are hard and complicated issues,’ including demands imposed by the Affordable Care Act, the nation’s health reform law.
There are indications that there could be some sort of contract extension.
Local 234 last struck in 2009. That walkout lasted six days.
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