WASHINGTON — Amtrak conductors and assistant conductors have approved a new seven-year contract agreement by a three-to-one margin, the union representing those more than 2,100 workers has announced.
“Our members are a major part of the experience passengers have aboard Amtrak,” said Jeremy Ferguson, president of the Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD), in announcing the results of ratification balloting.
The union and Amtrak had reached an agreement in August [see “Union announces tentative deal for conductors …,” Trains News Wire, Aug. 24, 2024]. The deal, retroactive to July 1, 2022, runs through Dec. 1, 2028. It includes an unspecified “general wage increase;” addition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday; 10 weeks of paid parental leave; and increases in training pay, certification pay, away-from-home terminal expenses, and overtime pay for employees on three- and four-day yard assignments on relief days, among other details.
