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.