With Contracts Set to Expire, SEPTA Union Says It Will Accept Arbitration

"We can get this contract settled," Willie Brown says.

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The union that represents 5,000 SEPTA workers vowed again Wednesday afternoon to forgo a strike in exchange for binding arbitration on unsettled issues between the agency and its employees.

TWU 234 sent out a press release pointing out that the last of three TWU/SEPTA contracts expires at midnight Sunday. Negotiators for both sides are scheduled to meet on Tuesday. Willie Brown, the union’s president, would not say if TWU would strike immediately at that time. “I’m still trying to get a contract,” he told Philly Mag.