Members of Transport Workers Union Local 234 -- which represents thousands of SEPTA operators, mechanics and others -- unanimously voted to authorize a strike on Sunday as the union seeks a new contract.

However, shortly after the vote was announced on Sunday, Will Vera, president of the union, said that while the members of his union have given him the authority to go on strike, he isn't planning on taking his members to the picket lines just yet.

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"I am not at this moment ready to call a strike," Vera said. "We all know that that could change at any moment."

According to Vera, the union is working to finalize a new two-year contract with SEPTA and, one major sticking point, he said, was how the mass

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