(Source: WHYY, August 27, 2021)
PHILADELPHIA — Transportation Workers Union Local 234 president Willie Brown has two words for SEPTA: “Life Happens.” As the union leader prepares to negotiate a new contract for more than 5,000 transit workers employed by the authority, Brown said he is prioritizing issues that haven’t historically been front and center at the bargaining table. Those things include better paid leave policies for parents, death compensation for the families of workers who died from COVID-19, and hazard pay, in addition to the standard ask of increased wages.
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