SEPTA workers will continue negotiations and did not strike as their contract expired at midnight Friday. Talks will continue between Transport Workers Union Local 234 and the transportation authority. A source close to the negotiations says negotiations between the union and SEPTA will resume at 2 p.m. today at the Wyndham Hotel in Old City.

SEPTA bus, trolley and subway operators in Philadelphia have been working without a contract since last Thursday.

Bus, trolley, and transit operators in the city are currently working without a contract. The last contract expired at midnight on Thursday, but union workers held off on a strike as both sides decided to continue negotiations. Meanwhile, on Friday, the union representing suburban transit workers formally voted to authorize a work stoppage.

Transit services in Philadelphia will run normally Monday as negotiators for SEPTA and the union continue talks.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority workers decided to continue negotiations on a new labor contract Friday afternoon, averting a strike that had been set for midnight Thursday.

Leaders of SEPTA’s largest employee union, Transport Workers Local 234, and the transit agency’s management agreed Thursday to keep negotiating even as the current contract was set to expire early Friday morning,