Transportation Workers Union Local 234 represents SEPTA bus, trolley, and subway operators.
Brian Pollitt, President of TWU Local 234, talks with mechanics at the Callowhill Depot in 2023. SEPTA's contract with TWU workers — which includes about 5,000 transit operators, mechanics, cashiers and maintenance people — expires on November 7, 2024.’s largest, voted on Sunday to authorize leaders to call a strike against the transit agency, less than two weeks before the local’s current contract expires and with little apparent progress in talks.
They have been working on a one-year contract that expires at 11:59 p.m., Nov. 7, two days after the election. It “SEPTA might be telling us to drop dead, but that does not mean we are just going to roll over and die,” the union said in its newsletter on Oct. 17.Local 234 also says that SEPTA has not made enough progress in better protecting its members from violence and disorder, despite a promise last year to work on improvements.
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