Amtrak general committees announce tentative agreement

August 23, 2024

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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.