We wrote last month that the Port Authority union rejected the contract that was to succeed the four year pact that expired July 1, 2016. There has been no media on the progress of talks since the rejection.
Over in Philadelphia, the Southeastern PA Regional Transit Authority (SEPTA) is trying to come to terms with its workers and avoid a strike set to start tomorrow, November 1st. SEPTA is one of the largest providers of mass transit in the nation, with a service area of 836 square miles and a population of 3.3 million.
To say that a strike would be disruptive is an understatement, as we have pointed out plenty of times in the past when writing about transit strikes. A few years ago there was a proposal in the General Assembly to prohibit strikes at SEPTA–the present case plainly tells what became of that effort.
