Strike – Temple Update

Undergrads React to Strike

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:18:04 +0000

The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association, better known as TUGSA, has now been on strike for over three weeks. The administration has been trying to fill the holes left by the strike but are having trouble filling all of them. Although most of them don’t have a say, undergraduate students are being affected by this just as much as Administration and TUGSA.

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SEPTA Workers Reach Agreement, Avoiding Strike

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:10:21 +0000

SEPTA workers reached an agreement with the SEPTA transit agency on Friday morning, creating a 2-year deal that will avoid a strike, as well as a subway shutdown. For the past several days, SEPTA workers have threatened to strike. They cited issues regarding COVID-19, higher wages, and more as their cause. By walking off the job, more than a few subways lines would have been closed down.

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SEPTA Returns More Trains to Market-Frankford Line

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:44:13 +0000

https://youtu.be/X9zMBP0H9vM This week’s commute should be a little smoother for riders on SEPTA’s Market-Frankford line as the transit agency continues to return more cars back into service. Last week SEPTA pulled over 100 cars from the line when mechanics found cracks on the support beams of two subway cars which prompted the inspections of many others for the same problem.

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SEPTA Operators Authorize Strike

Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:41:32 +0000

Members of Transport Workers Union Local 234 (TWU 234) met with SEPTA officials Sunday morning to discuss contract negotiations. Shortly into the meeting, workers in the Union voted unanimously to authorize a strike. Currently, the TWU represents over 5,000 SEPTA bus drivers, subway, and trolley operators. Negotiations with SEPTA began earlier this year, but the union’s contract expires Oct.

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