BART Talks Resume As Strike Deadline Looms
BART negotiations were expected to resume bargaining at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Instead, the talks were put off so each side could meet in "caucus" Saturday morning.
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BART negotiations were expected to resume bargaining at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Instead, the talks were put off so each side could meet in "caucus" Saturday morning.
BART's general manager is meeting with union leaders in Oakland Friday but will wait until Saturday to present a new contract proposal as a second strike by the workers looms, an agency spokeswoman said Friday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit was running trains as usual Friday after unions and management agreed to continue labor talks past a midnight deadline.
Bay Area Rapid Transit's lead negotiator is presenting union leaders with a new proposal Thursday, the final day of talks before the end of the 60-day-cooling off period.
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BART unions and management remained without a deal entering the final hours of the cooling-off period, opening the door for a possible strike. A new KPIX 5 / SurveyUSA poll found Bay Area residents are overwhelmingly against a walkout.
While BART's contract dispute continues, some Bay Area residents are thinking that they would like to work at the transit agency for the wages that are paid now. Those jobs, however, are hard to come by.
With less than three days until the cooling-off period expires, BART management and union leaders continued negotiations Tuesday. Meanwhile, transit agencies are firming up contingency plans if a second strike is called.
Labor leaders for Bay Area Rapid Transit workers say they are not giving 72-hour notice for a second strike.
Commuters weighed in on everything from cushion comfort to arm rests to lumbar support at the Union City BART station Monday afternoon. The transit system put three "realistic seat prototypes" on display and solicited feedback from BART patrons in advance of the fleet overhaul expected to take place several years from now.
If no deal is made by the end of a cooling off period that expires at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, two of the transit agency's largest unions could walk off the job on Friday morning.
With less than a week remaining before a 60-day cooling off period ends BART and its unions went back to the bargaining table Friday morning in hopes of avoiding another transit strike on October 11th.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge will rule Friday on whether a man who allegedly stripped naked and harassed people while doing acrobatic moves at a BART station can be released to obtain mental health services in another county.
Progress was made in BART labor contract negotiations on Thursday after unions presented a counter offer to the transit system's management and an agreement was made over pensions.
The two major unions representing Bay Area Rapid Transit workers said Wednesday they had lowered their contract demands to management in the hopes of avoiding a strike on Oct. 10 when a 60-day cooling off period imposed by the governor expires.
With a possible second strike looming, unions representing BART workers said they have put forward a new labor contract proposal to management Tuesday.
With the threat of another BART strike looming, an Orinda city councilman is pushing for legislation to ban transit workers from walking off the job.
Councilman Steve Glazer, a candidate for state Assembly and longtime advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown, launched a petition Thursday in favor of prohibiting transit worker strikes statewide.
With just over two weeks left before a state-ordered cooling-off period expires, Bay Area transit officials are already putting together a contingency plan in case BART workers go on another strike.
A civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of a homeless man fatally shot by a BART police officer at a San Francisco station two years ago has been dismissed by a federal magistrate in Oakland.
Two men were beaten at the Fremont Bay Area Rapid Transit station Friday evening by a group of men who apparently were mocked for being deaf, according to a published report.
Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a church near the the West Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station on Monday afternoon.
As another potential strike looms, BART officials are preparing other ways to get commuters to work, including possibly allowing managers to drive a limited number of trains.
While BART management and unions continue to negotiate, KPIX 5 has found the facility where managers are learning to operate trains in the event of a possible strike.
BART management and the unions have agreed to more talks, but it still remains to be scene whether they are getting any closer to an agreement.
