CENTER CITY – It was business as usual for the SEPTA stations around Philadelphia. The only difference, the SEPTA police force who usually protects the stations, were instead holding signs demanding a better contract with SEPTA.
“We are out here because of them. They know what it would have taken from keeping us from being out here and they just refused to do it,” says Troy Parham, the V.P. of Fraternal Order of Transit Police.
As negotiation talks resumed inside SEPTA headquarters Thursday afternoon, officers on strike lined the front of the building on 1234 Market Street.
A protest with very few words but still a powerful message.
“We want a fair contract and this is where we’ll be until we get one,” says Parham.
