Denver, CO
see the full file on Regional Transportation District (RTD)| No experience needed | Bus and rail operators and train engineers: no CDL required at the time of application. Most operational positions carry a $4,000 signing bonus. Body shop roles are advertised with on-the-job training. |
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| Pension | CLOSED TO NEW HIRES. The ATU Local 1001 defined benefit Pension Plan covers full-time and part-time represented employees hired BEFORE 1 January 2023; anyone hired on or after that date gets a Defined Contribution plan instead. For those still in the DB plan the benefit multiplier is 2.5%, sick and vacation pay counts in final average earnings, maximum credited service is 30 years, and participants contribute 5% of wages. RTD contributes $21m a year to the pension trust and guarantees benefit payments. Source: RTD/ATU Local 1001 collective bargaining agreement, published by RTD. |
| Shift differential | SCOPED: the $2.25/hour evening (3pm-11pm) and $2.75/hour night (11pm-4am) shift premiums in the ATU Local 1001 contract EXCLUDE Operations Group employees, i.e. bus and rail operators do not get them. What operators do get is a split shift premium of $2.00/hour for all hours of a split run, plus a $2.00/hour extra work incentive ($3.00 in overtime status). Non-operations staff who work a split shift get $0.45/hour. |
| Schedule protection | Work is allocated by seniority. Extra Board operators can take a weekly hold-down assignment by seniority instead of daily assignments; hold-downs are posted noon Wednesday to noon Friday for the following week, and a driver who does not vote goes back on the rotating extra board. Maintenance divisions hold a system-wide job pick every two years, with 30 days' notice of the job matrix and seniority list. |
| Union contract | Operations and maintenance employees are represented by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001, whose full collective bargaining agreement with RTD is published on RTD's careers site; transit police are represented by the FOP under a separate published agreement. |
| Paid training | All training is paid under the ATU Local 1001 contract: operators relieved from a regular assignment to attend training are paid their run pay, everyone else their straight-time rate, and employees cannot be mandated to train on days off. Service Persons and Service/Vault Pullers may request CDL training in writing at any time and RTD must start it within 60 days; holding the CDL then pays a $1.00/hour premium. Initial operator training rate is not published. No repayment or clawback clause appears in the agreement. |
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