Amtrak general committees announce tentative agreement

Amtrak General Chairpersons Francis Ariola (GO 663) and Rick Pauli (GO 769) are happy to announce a new tentative agreement with Amtrak. Ariola and Pauli’s committees represent over 2,100 Amtrak employees.

The seven-year tentative agreement includes:

• A substantial general wage increase.
  • Short crew payments are included.
  • Retroactive to July 1, 2022.
• Substantial paid parental leave.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday.
• Bereavement pay includes 3 workdays instead of 3 consecutive days off.
• Overtime for employees who are on 3- and 4-day yard assignments on their relief days.
• Increased training pay.
• Compensation for deadheading to classes.
• Increased new hire training per diem.
• Increased conductor certification pay.
• Pay protection for emergency annulments.
• Dropped the “90% of the 75% and 80%” when working in the yard.
• Current employees can keep AmPlan I health coverage.
• Increased away-from-home expenses.

Details of the agreement will go out to the membership for ratification within the next few weeks. The balloting process will be conducted by TrueBallot, Inc.