SEPTA Regional Rail on Strike - 6/14 - PEB to Mediate

[AlexC]

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A panel appointed by President Obama sided with SEPTA management Monday on most of the issues in its long-running labor dispute with Regional Rail engineers and electrical workers.

The presidential emergency board, whose recommendations are not binding, said the rail workers should get the same 11.5 percent raises negotiated in a five-year contract in 2009 by bus drivers and subway operators.

The railroad workers are not entitled to retroactive raises or to an additional increase based on a pension boost received by the bus drivers' union, the board said.

Those two issues are at the heart of a dispute that led to a one-day strike last month by 200 engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and 215 electrical workers represented by IBEW Local 744. The strike, which followed years of fruitless negotations, ended on June 15 after Obama appointed the emergency board.

[scotty269]

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SEPTA officials say they’ve reached a “tentative agreement” with one of the two major unions on its Regional Rail lines. The tentative agreement is with the IBEW union, which represents 216 electrical workers.

[motor]

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No deal has been reached with Regional Rail locomotive engineers, however, so the possibility of a commuter rail strike remains.

Engineers could strike as early as Oct. 12, and the tentative deal "doesn't affect our negotiations," said Stephen Bruno, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

I thought there was a 240 day cooling off period that kicked in when Obama appointed the PEB.

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[Clearfield]

I thought the 240 days ends in Feb of 2015.