BOSTON — Conductors and assistant conductors have ratified a new five-year agreement with the contract operators of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter trains.
Some 92% of members of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division, or 359 out of 387 who cast ballots, voted in favor of the agreement with Keolis Commuter Services, the union announced.
The tentative agreement was announced in March [see “SMART-TD, Keolis reach …,” Trains News Wire, March 29, 2025]. The contract, retroactive to July 1, 2023, will include annual raises compounding to 32.69% for conductors and 33.51% for assistant conductors over the the life of the agreement. It also includes three additional paid sick days per year, addition of Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday, and modifications to vacation rules and bereavement leave.
