Overview
- SEPTA and Fraternal Order of Transit Police Lodge 109 reached a tentative three-year contract that pauses a threatened work stoppage.
- The agreement calls for 12% total pay growth split as 5% in year one and 3.5% in each of the next two years plus a $2,500 signing bonus.
- The pact still needs a union ratification vote and formal approval from the SEPTA board before any pay changes take effect.
- The deal does not grant binding arbitration for transit police and state law currently bars transit officers from that process with legislation in Harrisburg under discussion.
- Lodge 109 represents about 203 patrol officers on SEPTA and negotiators say the raise follows SEPTA’s pattern bargaining tied to recent deals with other unions and comes after past transit police strikes in 2019 and 2023.