TriMet Reaches Tentative Contract Agreement With Operators
(Portland, OR) -- TriMet has reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract with the Amalgamated Transit Union. The deal has a more than 13 percent wage increase starting with a four percent raise in December. TriMet will increase its contribution to employees 401a plans by two percent. Union members can get up to 52-hundred dollars for continuing education a year. They can get 150 dollars a month in a childcare subsidy. And union members will get two additional floating holidays. The agreement still needs to be approved by union members.



