The VTA had offered a compromise of a 10.5 percent raise over three years, and language for arbitration that both sides agreed to. The union was supposed to vote on this new contract Saturday, with union leaders urging their workers to vote a unanimous “no” because they said they’d hit a “deadlock” with the transit agency.

Striking Valley Transportation Authority workers will vote Saturday on a new contract offer that union leaders have urged their members to reject. The VTA’s buses and light rail trains stopped running March 10,