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Here's part of the document's summary of the 2013 contract battle, which ended only after two nonunion workers were hit by a train and killed during the system's second strike last October:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At BART, a multitude of minor and significant mistakes, miscommunications, inaccurate assumptions, pervasive sense of mistrust, combative history, antagonistic tactics and feelings of victimization and futility all converged to poison the 2013 bargaining process. Interviews conducted over the last two and one-half months lead us to conclude that all parties have baggage and are deeply affected by what happened last year. 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That's the major conclusion of an outside consultant's 224-page report reviewing last year's strife and looking forward to the next round of negotiations, scheduled in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#bartlaborreport\">The report (embedded below)\u003c/a>, by Seattle-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.agreementdynamics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Agreement Dynamics\u003c/a>, makes 63 recommendations that could help avoid a meltdown in contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steps include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Beginning negotiations earlier\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bringing in \"neutral facilitators\" before formal talks begin to build trust between labor and management\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Excluding managers with \"historically combative relationships and/or adversarial styles\" from involvement in labor relations and including managers who are respected by and have credibility with the workforce\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Agreeing with unions on a fallback arbitration process in the case of impasse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Agreeing with unions on a joint media strategy in order to avoid airing disputes publicly.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There's plenty of fascinating reading in the report, based on more than 200 hours of interviews with 60 people, including members of the BART board, agency managers, the agency's labor consultants and union officers and negotiators, among others. 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Numerous interviewees used words such as “shell shocked,” “devoid of trust,” “angry” and “polarized” to describe their current state of mind.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report's authors also included a litany of the \"combat-type references\" that the two sides used to describe the conflict:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“We just walked out of a war.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“It was like Vietnam.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“We are outgunned.” (Over 20 separate references)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“They bring an army.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“A strike is war. That’s what they caused.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Labor massacre.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“They declared war.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“The bloodiest strike ever.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“They threw bombs.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So, how ready are the two sides to embrace a new direction? The San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Cabanatuan conveys remarks from both management and labor:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican said the agency is analyzing the recommendations and has already taken steps to improve relations with its unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year's labor negotiation process was well below the standard the public and our riders expect and deserve,\" she said. \"This report makes it clear that mistakes were made on all sides during the 2013 labor negotiations process. BART management certainly made our share.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pete Castelli, executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, which represents clerical, maintenance and administrative workers, said he supported many of the recommendations. But, he said, BART doesn't have to wait for the next round of contract talks to improve labor relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything that gets us having these kinds of conversations and gets management thinking about what happened is a good thing,\" he said. \"Taking a different approach that would mean good faith bargaining, we'd welcome that. But they can do that now. They could do that yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"bartlaborreport\">\u003c/a>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_79645\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/239305872/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/147303/bart-consultant-big-changes-needed-to-avoid-repeat-of-contract-war","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4564","news_269","news_214"],"featImg":"news_133074","label":"news_6944"},"news_121645":{"type":"posts","id":"news_121645","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"121645","score":null,"sort":[1387660588000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bart-unions-reach-deal-in-contract-dispute","title":"BART, Unions Reach Deal in Contract Dispute","publishDate":1387660588,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/21/bart-unions-say-theyve-reached-a-deal-in-contract-dispute/northberkeleybart/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121646\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/northberkeleybart-640x356.jpg\" alt=\"North Berkeley BART station on the eve of October strike (Dan Brekke/KQED). \" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-121646\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Berkeley BART station on the eve of October strike (Dan Brekke/KQED). \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART and its two biggest unions, locked for the better part of a year in a contract battle that twice led workers to strike, say they've settled their differences over a disputed family-leave provision in their recently negotiated agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/bart-board-contract-questions\" target=\"_blank\">provision\u003c/a> would have granted union members six weeks of paid family leave, a change from the previous policy, which required workers to use up all their accumulated vacation and sick time before getting paid leave. BART said the clause was included in the contract by mistake and would cost the district between $5.6 million and $44 million over the four years of the new labor agreement, depending on how many workers used the federally mandated leave. The BART board of directors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/21/bart-board-vote-union-contract/\" target=\"_blank\">refused to approve the provision\u003c/a>, even though it had been signed by senior management officials and ratified by the unions. That prompted the two unions involved, the BART chapter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SEIU Local 1021\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/03/bart-unions-taking-agency-to-court-over-contract-dispute/\" target=\"_blank\">sue the district\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the agreement announced today, the disputed provision for six weeks of paid family leave has been removed from the contract. Instead, workers will get more flexibility in how they use vacation, sick days or comp time when they take family leave. The district's bereavement leave policy will also be expanded to include time off in the event of the death of a grandchild or step-parent of a spouse or domestic partner. The deal also includes a district agreement to build new break facilities at Daly City, Millbrae and West Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican will submit the final contract to the BART board. If the board approves the agreement, the unions will vote on the pact. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides issued statements early Saturday that seemed to acknowledge the public discontent with the continuing contract dispute, which shut down the system for four days in July and four more in October. BART carries about 200,000 people on weekdays, and the system's two strikes caused jams on Bay Area freeways, burdened other transit agencies. The contract dispute and its aftermath led to widespread public criticism over relatively high union pay and BART management's handling of the family leave provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “After eight months of uncertainty for our riders,\" Crunican said in the BART statement, \"this deal will guarantee that every ounce of the Agency’s focus will be directed to providing great service to the Bay Area during the peak holiday period and beyond.\" John Arantes, president of the SEIU 1021 BART chapter, called today's agreement \"a fair resolution that would close months of drawn out contract talks and — in the interest of the riding public — end the uncertainty caused by the board’s removal of a section from our final, complete contract.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the fallout from this year's labor dispute has settled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Keller, who took over as president of the BART Board of Directors this week, says he wants \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\">to hold a referendum\u003c/a> on whether the agency's union employees should be allowed to strike. That vote would be advisory only — the state Legislature would have to enact any changes in the workers' collective-bargaining status — but Keller's suggestion immediately drew angry denunciations from union officials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are the statements from BART and from SEIU Local 1021, followed by the signed agreements the two sides announced today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From BART:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican announced that all contract issues have been settled between BART and its two largest labor Unions. She will recommend the ratification of a final collective bargaining agreement with SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555 to the BART Board of Directors as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last remaining contract difference was resolved with solutions that are administrative in nature and/or will be covered within BART's existing budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After eight months of uncertainty for our riders, this deal will guarantee that every ounce of the Agency’s focus will be directed to providing great service to the Bay Area during the peak holiday period and beyond,” said Crunican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART and its Unions have spent the last month working to resolve a disputed tentative agreement which would have added weeks of additional paid leave time to BART employees. The issue was resolved with a series of agreements that 1) expands the District’s Bereavement Leave policy to allow workers paid time off in the event of the death of a grandchild or step-parent of a spouse or domestic partner, 2) upgrades employee break rooms at the Daly City, Millbrae and West Oakland BART stations, to be paid for through the District’s already funded station modernization program, 3) allows qualifying employees more flexibility in how they pay for the costs of their family medical leave, plus additional administrative changes to the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today BART’s largest unions, SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555, reached a tentative agreement with BART’s Management’s negotiators on a disputed contract provision on paid family medical leave.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From the SEIU:\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve reached a resolution that we can bring back to our members for a vote,” said SEIU 1021 BART Chapter President John Arantes. “It’s a fair resolution that would close months of drawn out contract talks and—in the interest of the riding public—end the uncertainty caused by the Board’s removal of a section from our final, complete contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BART Management has been adamant in their admission of a mistake and how they’ve handled the situation,” Arantes continued, “and, in the past few days, we’ve had the opportunity to have meaningful discussion and resolve some of our differences at the bargaining table. We’d like to thank Greg Lim, from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, who returned to provide valuable assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ability to address the disputed provision at the bargaining table resulted from BART Management’s negotiators sharing the unions’ commitment to bargain fairly and equitably,” said Des Patten, SEIU 1021 Professional Chapter President. “That’s the way to fix problems, and the way we hope BART Management and the BART Directors would move forward from now on, so that they can restore the lost trust from the riders and from their workers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the BART Board of Directors ratify the contract, the amended version of the strike-ending agreement will be brought before SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555 members for a vote. Once ratified, the contract terms would go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On November 21st, the BART Board of Directors voted to approve a contract that did not have a provision on family medical leave, that BART’s chief negotiator Thomas Hock, Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier, and Labor Relations Manager Rudy Medina bargained and signed with its unions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/192930299/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_69479\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sides say they've resolved family-leave issue. Deal must be approved by agency board and workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1387660594,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1191},"headData":{"title":"BART, Unions Reach Deal in Contract Dispute | KQED","description":"Sides say they've resolved family-leave issue. 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BART said the clause was included in the contract by mistake and would cost the district between $5.6 million and $44 million over the four years of the new labor agreement, depending on how many workers used the federally mandated leave. The BART board of directors \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/21/bart-board-vote-union-contract/\" target=\"_blank\">refused to approve the provision\u003c/a>, even though it had been signed by senior management officials and ratified by the unions. That prompted the two unions involved, the BART chapter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SEIU Local 1021\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555\u003c/a>, to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/03/bart-unions-taking-agency-to-court-over-contract-dispute/\" target=\"_blank\">sue the district\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the agreement announced today, the disputed provision for six weeks of paid family leave has been removed from the contract. Instead, workers will get more flexibility in how they use vacation, sick days or comp time when they take family leave. The district's bereavement leave policy will also be expanded to include time off in the event of the death of a grandchild or step-parent of a spouse or domestic partner. The deal also includes a district agreement to build new break facilities at Daly City, Millbrae and West Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican will submit the final contract to the BART board. If the board approves the agreement, the unions will vote on the pact. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides issued statements early Saturday that seemed to acknowledge the public discontent with the continuing contract dispute, which shut down the system for four days in July and four more in October. BART carries about 200,000 people on weekdays, and the system's two strikes caused jams on Bay Area freeways, burdened other transit agencies. The contract dispute and its aftermath led to widespread public criticism over relatively high union pay and BART management's handling of the family leave provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “After eight months of uncertainty for our riders,\" Crunican said in the BART statement, \"this deal will guarantee that every ounce of the Agency’s focus will be directed to providing great service to the Bay Area during the peak holiday period and beyond.\" John Arantes, president of the SEIU 1021 BART chapter, called today's agreement \"a fair resolution that would close months of drawn out contract talks and — in the interest of the riding public — end the uncertainty caused by the board’s removal of a section from our final, complete contract.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the fallout from this year's labor dispute has settled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Keller, who took over as president of the BART Board of Directors this week, says he wants \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\">to hold a referendum\u003c/a> on whether the agency's union employees should be allowed to strike. That vote would be advisory only — the state Legislature would have to enact any changes in the workers' collective-bargaining status — but Keller's suggestion immediately drew angry denunciations from union officials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are the statements from BART and from SEIU Local 1021, followed by the signed agreements the two sides announced today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From BART:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican announced that all contract issues have been settled between BART and its two largest labor Unions. She will recommend the ratification of a final collective bargaining agreement with SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555 to the BART Board of Directors as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last remaining contract difference was resolved with solutions that are administrative in nature and/or will be covered within BART's existing budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After eight months of uncertainty for our riders, this deal will guarantee that every ounce of the Agency’s focus will be directed to providing great service to the Bay Area during the peak holiday period and beyond,” said Crunican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART and its Unions have spent the last month working to resolve a disputed tentative agreement which would have added weeks of additional paid leave time to BART employees. The issue was resolved with a series of agreements that 1) expands the District’s Bereavement Leave policy to allow workers paid time off in the event of the death of a grandchild or step-parent of a spouse or domestic partner, 2) upgrades employee break rooms at the Daly City, Millbrae and West Oakland BART stations, to be paid for through the District’s already funded station modernization program, 3) allows qualifying employees more flexibility in how they pay for the costs of their family medical leave, plus additional administrative changes to the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today BART’s largest unions, SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555, reached a tentative agreement with BART’s Management’s negotiators on a disputed contract provision on paid family medical leave.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From the SEIU:\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve reached a resolution that we can bring back to our members for a vote,” said SEIU 1021 BART Chapter President John Arantes. “It’s a fair resolution that would close months of drawn out contract talks and—in the interest of the riding public—end the uncertainty caused by the Board’s removal of a section from our final, complete contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BART Management has been adamant in their admission of a mistake and how they’ve handled the situation,” Arantes continued, “and, in the past few days, we’ve had the opportunity to have meaningful discussion and resolve some of our differences at the bargaining table. We’d like to thank Greg Lim, from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, who returned to provide valuable assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ability to address the disputed provision at the bargaining table resulted from BART Management’s negotiators sharing the unions’ commitment to bargain fairly and equitably,” said Des Patten, SEIU 1021 Professional Chapter President. “That’s the way to fix problems, and the way we hope BART Management and the BART Directors would move forward from now on, so that they can restore the lost trust from the riders and from their workers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the BART Board of Directors ratify the contract, the amended version of the strike-ending agreement will be brought before SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555 members for a vote. 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The two four-day walkouts, in July and October, appear to have had an impact on public opinion, with 52 percent of those surveyed\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/majority-of-bay-area-voters-oppose-transit-workers-right-to-strike\" target=\"_blank\"> in a recent Field Poll\u003c/a> saying they oppose transit worker strikes. Widespread frustration with work stoppages at BART, which carries about 200,000 people a day, has triggered \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Democrat-Steve-Glazer-risks-union-backlash-4899266.php\" target=\"_blank\">an online campaign\u003c/a> to get the Legislature to ban such strikes in the future. And now the BART board of directors may get into the act, as it weighs a proposal for a ballot referendum asking Bay Area voters whether the system's workers ought to be allowed to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Joel Keller wants to put an advisory measure on the November 2014 ballot. He says the Legislature would still have to amend the law, reclassifying BART workers as essential and forcing binding arbitration for future labor negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to hear from the riders; I want to hear from the unions,\" Keller said before the board met this morning. \"I want to hear from the people in the Bay Area. I’ve come to the conclusion that these labor disruptions are very harmful to public transportation. I think we have to find a way to do better in the future for our riders and for the commuting public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller said during the board's meeting that his experience in nearly two decades as a BART director led him to change his minds about strikes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Nineteen years ago, if somebody had put that before this board, I would have said not \"no,\" but \"hell, no.\" But after 19 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that our riders deserve better than what has happened in the last six months. I see no alternative. This is my fifth labor negotiation at BART, and they have progressively been getting worse and worse and worse. And the people who get hurt are the riders and the commuters of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Union officials blasted Keller's referendum proposal, calling it a politically motivated ploy to draw attention away from poor job performances by agency management and the board of directors. SEIU Executive Director Pete Castelli issued a statement saying: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In these past eight months, the Bay Area has witnessed how BART officials and their high-paid consultants like Thomas Hock have actively pursued a scorched earth policy to dismantle workers’ rights and workers' ability to improve workplace conditions. They’ve seen how the Board and Management have chosen to disregard workers’ concerns, resulting in a less reliable and more dangerous transportation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders and the Bay Area have seen how our elected Board has allowed the General Manager to run the system in a reckless manner, without consideration for the riding public or their own employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of taking responsibility or demanding accountability, Director Keller prefers to point fingers and blame workers, just as those very workers are in the process of fixing Management’s alleged mistakes. This is not a way to run a train system.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>BART concluded contracts with its biggest unions last month. But disputes continue over the agreements. One involves \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/21/bart-board-vote-union-contract/\" target=\"_blank\">a potentially expensive family-leave provision\u003c/a> included in the final contract language with SEIU Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 that BART — despite its official signatures on the clause — insists it never agreed to. The second issue involves the effective date for new pension and retirement provisions for members of AFSCME Local 3993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the AFSCME contract problem, BART board member Keller \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/BART-labor-talks-snag-on-new-glitch-5073097.php\" target=\"_blank\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It's disappointing. There is no excuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who represents eastern Contra Costa County and who is expected to take over as board president Thursday, said he intends to appoint a committee to look into the district's labor negotiations process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for solving the latest snafu, Keller said: \"Maybe I'll jump off a building and let someone else figure it out.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amid rising public frustration, BART may hold referendum on whether walkouts should be banned. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1387505256,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":693},"headData":{"title":"BART Board Member Wants Public Vote on Transit Strikes | KQED","description":"Amid rising public frustration, BART may hold referendum on whether walkouts should be banned. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"121294 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=121294","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-member-wants-public-vote-on-transit-strikes/","disqusTitle":"BART Board Member Wants Public Vote on Transit Strikes","customPermalink":"2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes/","path":"/news/121294/bart-board-member-wants-public-vote-on-transit-strikes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1/rs7074_004/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115430\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS7074_004-e1382115321568.jpg\" alt=\"(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART's biggest unions walked out out twice earlier this year in the midst of bitter and still-not-completely resolved contract disputes. The two four-day walkouts, in July and October, appear to have had an impact on public opinion, with 52 percent of those surveyed\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/majority-of-bay-area-voters-oppose-transit-workers-right-to-strike\" target=\"_blank\"> in a recent Field Poll\u003c/a> saying they oppose transit worker strikes. Widespread frustration with work stoppages at BART, which carries about 200,000 people a day, has triggered \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Democrat-Steve-Glazer-risks-union-backlash-4899266.php\" target=\"_blank\">an online campaign\u003c/a> to get the Legislature to ban such strikes in the future. And now the BART board of directors may get into the act, as it weighs a proposal for a ballot referendum asking Bay Area voters whether the system's workers ought to be allowed to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Joel Keller wants to put an advisory measure on the November 2014 ballot. He says the Legislature would still have to amend the law, reclassifying BART workers as essential and forcing binding arbitration for future labor negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to hear from the riders; I want to hear from the unions,\" Keller said before the board met this morning. \"I want to hear from the people in the Bay Area. I’ve come to the conclusion that these labor disruptions are very harmful to public transportation. I think we have to find a way to do better in the future for our riders and for the commuting public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller said during the board's meeting that his experience in nearly two decades as a BART director led him to change his minds about strikes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Nineteen years ago, if somebody had put that before this board, I would have said not \"no,\" but \"hell, no.\" But after 19 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that our riders deserve better than what has happened in the last six months. I see no alternative. This is my fifth labor negotiation at BART, and they have progressively been getting worse and worse and worse. And the people who get hurt are the riders and the commuters of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Union officials blasted Keller's referendum proposal, calling it a politically motivated ploy to draw attention away from poor job performances by agency management and the board of directors. SEIU Executive Director Pete Castelli issued a statement saying: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In these past eight months, the Bay Area has witnessed how BART officials and their high-paid consultants like Thomas Hock have actively pursued a scorched earth policy to dismantle workers’ rights and workers' ability to improve workplace conditions. They’ve seen how the Board and Management have chosen to disregard workers’ concerns, resulting in a less reliable and more dangerous transportation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riders and the Bay Area have seen how our elected Board has allowed the General Manager to run the system in a reckless manner, without consideration for the riding public or their own employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of taking responsibility or demanding accountability, Director Keller prefers to point fingers and blame workers, just as those very workers are in the process of fixing Management’s alleged mistakes. This is not a way to run a train system.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>BART concluded contracts with its biggest unions last month. But disputes continue over the agreements. One involves \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/21/bart-board-vote-union-contract/\" target=\"_blank\">a potentially expensive family-leave provision\u003c/a> included in the final contract language with SEIU Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 that BART — despite its official signatures on the clause — insists it never agreed to. The second issue involves the effective date for new pension and retirement provisions for members of AFSCME Local 3993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the AFSCME contract problem, BART board member Keller \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/BART-labor-talks-snag-on-new-glitch-5073097.php\" target=\"_blank\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It's disappointing. There is no excuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who represents eastern Contra Costa County and who is expected to take over as board president Thursday, said he intends to appoint a committee to look into the district's labor negotiations process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for solving the latest snafu, Keller said: \"Maybe I'll jump off a building and let someone else figure it out.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/121294/bart-board-member-wants-public-vote-on-transit-strikes","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4419","news_4564","news_269","news_19904","news_214","news_794"],"featImg":"news_115430","label":"news_6944"},"news_115040":{"type":"posts","id":"news_115040","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"115040","score":null,"sort":[1382110230000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bart-strike-deadline-tuesday-update-marathon-talks-continue","title":"BART Strike Begins After Collapse of Contract Talks","publishDate":1382110230,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/15/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-continue/rs7071_007-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115417\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115417\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS7071_007-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"BART workers picket at the system's Lake Merritt station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART workers picket at the system's Lake Merritt station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"blank\">Friday BART Strike Update: Monster Commute, No Talks Planned\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guide:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/02/if-theres-a-bart-strike-here-are-your-options/\" target=\"_blank\">During the BART Strike, Here Are Your Transit Options\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Current status, 8:30 a.m. Friday\u003c/strong> The commute into San Francisco has been, as expected, pretty awful. Interstate 880, the Nimitz Freeway, has backed up at times all the way from Hayward up to the Bay Bridge -- nearly 20 miles. Interstate 580, the MacArthur Freeway, has been backed up to Highway 24. Speaking of 24, it's back up to speed after having been slow in long stretches all the way from Walnut Creek to the 580 interchange. The Eastshore Freeway, I-80, has been backed up to Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, after years of occasional Bay Bridge closures and last July's BART strike, disruptions are nothing new to Bay Area commuters and commute services. BART is running bus service, AC Transit and other agencies are operating extra buses, and the San Francisco Bay Ferry system is sailing extra runs. All of those are crowded but operating smoothly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:01 a.m.:\u003c/strong> For the second time in 2013, BART is on strike. Union pickets are ready to take up positions at stations throughout the Bay Area. We have no indication yet when union and management negotiators will attempt to resume talks, which broke down Thursday afternoon in a dispute over work rules at the transit agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First response\u003c/strong> The California Republican Party marked the beginning of the strike by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cssrc.us/news.aspx?id=14334&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">renewing its call \u003c/a>for a law to stop BART workers from walking out. That idea was first floated last month by Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, who asked Gov. Jerry Brown to call a special session of the Legislature to pass the bill. Brown declined, citing opposition from most legislators, unions and even BART. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Leaders-try-to-forbid-transit-workers-from-4874289.php\" target=\"_blank\">has signaled some interest\u003c/a> in legislation that would submit transit disputes to binding arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Major points:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The breakdown:\u003c/strong> Talks broke down this afternoon after a 30-hour negotiation marathon. The federal mediator in charge of the talks said significant progress was made on many issues but ultimately the differences between the two sides could not be bridged. He said mediators are exiting the talks for now.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Work rules dispute:\u003c/strong> Unions say they had reached agreement with the agency on pay, pension and medical benefits, but the talks foundered on BART's insistence on changes in work rules. BART management says it wants changes in work rules to help assure the transit system's future \"efficiency and effectiveness.\" Unions say the agency refused an offer to submit the work rules dispute to outside arbitration. BART General Manager Grace Crunican said the offer was rejected because unions were willing to submit only part of the contract to arbitration.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Final contract offer:\u003c/strong>BART made an offer that was very close to the \"last, best and final offer\" first presented last Sunday and said it wants union leadership to submit that proposal to a rank-and-file vote. Union officials say they believe the offer has no chance of acceptance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Governor out of moves:\u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown's office says the governor, who moved to impose the cooling-off period that expired last week, has no more legal leverage to prevent a strike.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The details:\u003c/strong> SEIU Local 1021 President Roxanne Sanchez appeared outside the Caltrans building in Oakland after 30 straight hours of talks to announce that BART's unions intend to strike at midnight. Federal mediators confirmed that talks had broken up, and BART management said it had repeated its \"last, best and final\" offer after unions refused to accept changes in work rules. BART General Manager Grace Crunican again called on union leaders to submit the offer to a rank-and-file vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appearing outside Caltrans headquarters in Oakland, Sanchez accused BART management of forcing the dispute to a strike. Sanchez apologized to the public for what she acknowledged will be very difficult transit conditions if the walkout occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said her union had agreed \"100 percent\" with BART's proposals for pay, for new pension contributions and for increased health-insurance payments. But she said BART had taken a \"radical, hardline ... harsh, entrenched and unjustified position\" on work rules and working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said that the unions had been willing to submit the work rules provisions to outside arbitration, but BART management refused the offer. She said that unless BART changed its tack in bargaining, a strike will begin at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"God willing, the general manager and BART board will move our unresolved conflict to an interest arbitration table instead of to the street,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's appearance was the first in a parade of the principals in this week's talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Cohen, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, confirmed the negotiations are over and mediators are withdrawing from the talks. Despite significant progress in some areas, Cohen said, \"In the final analysis, certain issues remained. The parties were unable to bridge the gap. Our efforts to do that at this point in time was not successful.\" Cohen said mediators are \"willing, ready and able\" to re-enter the talks at the parties' request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican said the talks broke down over work rules that the district could not bend on. \"The district made it very clear that we have certain rights that we need to maintain in this package, that we had a level we could afford if some of these rights were included in the package,\" Crunican said after the talks broke down. \"These were work rules that were essential to maintaining the future efficiency and effectiveness of the agency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reporters asked for an example of the work rules at stake, Crunican mentioned \"beneficial past practices,\" a provision that she said gives workers a veto over new technology the district wants to introduce. \"One example is pay stubs,\" she said. \"We all receive electronically our pay stubs online, but because back in history everyone received their pay stub in an envelope, we now use our foreworkers' time to hand-deliver a pay stub to each individual worker. They waste their time doing something that could be done with automation. There are a number of things like that that go on at BART and it is time for management to be able to manage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone in the crowd called out, \"We're going on strike for pay stubs!\", Crunican added that \"bidding,\" the system by which many unions member receive job assignments, also needs to be overhauled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said a walkout would be \"a management strike, brought on by absolute arrogance and the fact that they thought that they could take workers’ rights away. We were close on two separate occasions to closing this deal. We had come together on areas of wages, of pension, of everything that they were asking for. We were this close. And yet at the last minute they threw in a management rights clause to take away our rights as workers. Everything else was done, and it should have been done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crunican called on union leaders to submit the district's proposal to a rank-and-file vote, just as she had last Sunday. But the SEIU's Sanchez said that would only lead to a vote rejecting the contract and could lead to an even more protracted dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown acted in August to impose a 60-day cooling-off period in the dispute. Evan Westrup, Brown's spokesman, said tonight the governor has no further legal leverage to prevent a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier updates: \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m.: \u003c/strong> Trains are running on a normal schedule. The BART labor negotiations have continued all night and all day and are now in their 30th consecutive hour. BART's hired chief negotiator, Thomas Hock, has returned to the talks after a two-day absence. He was in Disneyland speaking to a transportation industry conference \"The Art of Negotiating the Deal.\" He's quoted as saying earlier this afternoon \"this should be in the final stretch\" for the talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca>Mike Rosenberg\u003c/a> of the San Jose Mercury News has a question about the marathon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a> talks have now been going nonstop for 27 hours. Think about the last time you stayed up that long. Can they even think straight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RosenbergMerc/statuses/390933340246659072\">October 17, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The prelude to the second all-nighter in the talks this week came at 10:30 Wednesday night, when the now-familiar figure of George Cohen, the head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, announced that BART would run Thursday. He said unions and management are \"totally engaged\" in bargaining and progress was being made. He declined — \"as is my custom\" — to make a statement. He headed back into the Caltrans building after telling reporters and TV crews assembled outside the Caltrans building, \"It's lovely to see each of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Associated Press is reporting \"at least one person seems comfortable betting that a strike won't happen. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee left for Asia after delaying the trip for two days to ready the city for a possible strike, according to his spokeswoman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier updates:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Leaders of SEIU Local 1021, which represents BART station agents janitors and some other workers, are gathering in the lobby of the Caltrans building in Oakland — an announcement of some kind appears imminent. Talks have continued all day between BART and its two biggest unions, again with the possibility of a strike being called for tomorrow. Roxanne Sanchez, president of SEIU Local 1021, announced early this afternoon the unions will do their best to announce the status of negotiations and Thursday train service by 10 p.m. tonight. By way of a mini-development in the saga, Antonette Bryant, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said later her union had not been consulted about the promise to make an early strike/no strike call this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by way of our reporter Alex Emslie, here's the scene outside the Caltrans District 4 headquarters this evening as the media hunkers down for its nightly BART vigil:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BART&src=hash\">#BART\u003c/a> nightwatch beginning. Reporter I relieved said no guarantee of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a> yes or no by 10, despite earlier info. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/ktP6F4wQGE\">pic.twitter.com/ktP6F4wQGE\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/390664196108476416\">October 17, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Talks adjourned just after midnight and are scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. Last night, the wait for word on the negotiations ended just after 10 p.m. when George Cohen, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, confirmed there would be no strike today. Full transcript of Cohen's remarks, by way of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, our reporter staking out the talks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thanks for bearing with us. I have a very brief statement, and I will not be taking any questions. You all should understand that bargaining continues to take place. Under our auspices, parties have made some progress, and the parties have authorized me to advise you that on behalf of themselves and in support of the public interest and all the riders in this area, there will be train service operating all day tomorrow. I appreciate your attention and your understanding that we are intimately involved in the negotiation process. We're devoting all our efforts and energy to achieve an agreement, for the parties to achieve an agreement. And I will not be taking any questions, and I thank you for forbearing. Good evening.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bay Area commuters face slow going as BART contract talks break down for the second time this year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1382121033,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1944},"headData":{"title":"BART Strike Begins After Collapse of Contract Talks | KQED","description":"Bay Area commuters face slow going as BART contract talks break down for the second time this year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"115040 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=115040","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-deadline-tuesday-update-marathon-talks-continue/","disqusTitle":"BART Strike Begins After Collapse of Contract Talks","customPermalink":"2013/10/15/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-continue/","path":"/news/115040/bart-strike-deadline-tuesday-update-marathon-talks-continue","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/15/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-continue/rs7071_007-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115417\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115417\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS7071_007-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"BART workers picket at the system's Lake Merritt station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART workers picket at the system's Lake Merritt station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"blank\">Friday BART Strike Update: Monster Commute, No Talks Planned\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guide:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/02/if-theres-a-bart-strike-here-are-your-options/\" target=\"_blank\">During the BART Strike, Here Are Your Transit Options\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Current status, 8:30 a.m. Friday\u003c/strong> The commute into San Francisco has been, as expected, pretty awful. Interstate 880, the Nimitz Freeway, has backed up at times all the way from Hayward up to the Bay Bridge -- nearly 20 miles. Interstate 580, the MacArthur Freeway, has been backed up to Highway 24. Speaking of 24, it's back up to speed after having been slow in long stretches all the way from Walnut Creek to the 580 interchange. The Eastshore Freeway, I-80, has been backed up to Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, after years of occasional Bay Bridge closures and last July's BART strike, disruptions are nothing new to Bay Area commuters and commute services. BART is running bus service, AC Transit and other agencies are operating extra buses, and the San Francisco Bay Ferry system is sailing extra runs. All of those are crowded but operating smoothly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:01 a.m.:\u003c/strong> For the second time in 2013, BART is on strike. Union pickets are ready to take up positions at stations throughout the Bay Area. We have no indication yet when union and management negotiators will attempt to resume talks, which broke down Thursday afternoon in a dispute over work rules at the transit agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First response\u003c/strong> The California Republican Party marked the beginning of the strike by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cssrc.us/news.aspx?id=14334&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">renewing its call \u003c/a>for a law to stop BART workers from walking out. That idea was first floated last month by Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, who asked Gov. Jerry Brown to call a special session of the Legislature to pass the bill. Brown declined, citing opposition from most legislators, unions and even BART. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Leaders-try-to-forbid-transit-workers-from-4874289.php\" target=\"_blank\">has signaled some interest\u003c/a> in legislation that would submit transit disputes to binding arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Major points:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>The breakdown:\u003c/strong> Talks broke down this afternoon after a 30-hour negotiation marathon. The federal mediator in charge of the talks said significant progress was made on many issues but ultimately the differences between the two sides could not be bridged. He said mediators are exiting the talks for now.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Work rules dispute:\u003c/strong> Unions say they had reached agreement with the agency on pay, pension and medical benefits, but the talks foundered on BART's insistence on changes in work rules. BART management says it wants changes in work rules to help assure the transit system's future \"efficiency and effectiveness.\" Unions say the agency refused an offer to submit the work rules dispute to outside arbitration. BART General Manager Grace Crunican said the offer was rejected because unions were willing to submit only part of the contract to arbitration.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Final contract offer:\u003c/strong>BART made an offer that was very close to the \"last, best and final offer\" first presented last Sunday and said it wants union leadership to submit that proposal to a rank-and-file vote. Union officials say they believe the offer has no chance of acceptance.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Governor out of moves:\u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown's office says the governor, who moved to impose the cooling-off period that expired last week, has no more legal leverage to prevent a strike.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The details:\u003c/strong> SEIU Local 1021 President Roxanne Sanchez appeared outside the Caltrans building in Oakland after 30 straight hours of talks to announce that BART's unions intend to strike at midnight. Federal mediators confirmed that talks had broken up, and BART management said it had repeated its \"last, best and final\" offer after unions refused to accept changes in work rules. BART General Manager Grace Crunican again called on union leaders to submit the offer to a rank-and-file vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appearing outside Caltrans headquarters in Oakland, Sanchez accused BART management of forcing the dispute to a strike. Sanchez apologized to the public for what she acknowledged will be very difficult transit conditions if the walkout occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said her union had agreed \"100 percent\" with BART's proposals for pay, for new pension contributions and for increased health-insurance payments. But she said BART had taken a \"radical, hardline ... harsh, entrenched and unjustified position\" on work rules and working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said that the unions had been willing to submit the work rules provisions to outside arbitration, but BART management refused the offer. She said that unless BART changed its tack in bargaining, a strike will begin at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"God willing, the general manager and BART board will move our unresolved conflict to an interest arbitration table instead of to the street,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's appearance was the first in a parade of the principals in this week's talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Cohen, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, confirmed the negotiations are over and mediators are withdrawing from the talks. Despite significant progress in some areas, Cohen said, \"In the final analysis, certain issues remained. The parties were unable to bridge the gap. Our efforts to do that at this point in time was not successful.\" Cohen said mediators are \"willing, ready and able\" to re-enter the talks at the parties' request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART General Manager Grace Crunican said the talks broke down over work rules that the district could not bend on. \"The district made it very clear that we have certain rights that we need to maintain in this package, that we had a level we could afford if some of these rights were included in the package,\" Crunican said after the talks broke down. \"These were work rules that were essential to maintaining the future efficiency and effectiveness of the agency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reporters asked for an example of the work rules at stake, Crunican mentioned \"beneficial past practices,\" a provision that she said gives workers a veto over new technology the district wants to introduce. \"One example is pay stubs,\" she said. \"We all receive electronically our pay stubs online, but because back in history everyone received their pay stub in an envelope, we now use our foreworkers' time to hand-deliver a pay stub to each individual worker. They waste their time doing something that could be done with automation. There are a number of things like that that go on at BART and it is time for management to be able to manage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone in the crowd called out, \"We're going on strike for pay stubs!\", Crunican added that \"bidding,\" the system by which many unions member receive job assignments, also needs to be overhauled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said a walkout would be \"a management strike, brought on by absolute arrogance and the fact that they thought that they could take workers’ rights away. We were close on two separate occasions to closing this deal. We had come together on areas of wages, of pension, of everything that they were asking for. We were this close. And yet at the last minute they threw in a management rights clause to take away our rights as workers. Everything else was done, and it should have been done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crunican called on union leaders to submit the district's proposal to a rank-and-file vote, just as she had last Sunday. But the SEIU's Sanchez said that would only lead to a vote rejecting the contract and could lead to an even more protracted dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown acted in August to impose a 60-day cooling-off period in the dispute. Evan Westrup, Brown's spokesman, said tonight the governor has no further legal leverage to prevent a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier updates: \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m.: \u003c/strong> Trains are running on a normal schedule. The BART labor negotiations have continued all night and all day and are now in their 30th consecutive hour. BART's hired chief negotiator, Thomas Hock, has returned to the talks after a two-day absence. He was in Disneyland speaking to a transportation industry conference \"The Art of Negotiating the Deal.\" He's quoted as saying earlier this afternoon \"this should be in the final stretch\" for the talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca>Mike Rosenberg\u003c/a> of the San Jose Mercury News has a question about the marathon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a> talks have now been going nonstop for 27 hours. Think about the last time you stayed up that long. Can they even think straight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RosenbergMerc/statuses/390933340246659072\">October 17, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The prelude to the second all-nighter in the talks this week came at 10:30 Wednesday night, when the now-familiar figure of George Cohen, the head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, announced that BART would run Thursday. He said unions and management are \"totally engaged\" in bargaining and progress was being made. He declined — \"as is my custom\" — to make a statement. He headed back into the Caltrans building after telling reporters and TV crews assembled outside the Caltrans building, \"It's lovely to see each of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Associated Press is reporting \"at least one person seems comfortable betting that a strike won't happen. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee left for Asia after delaying the trip for two days to ready the city for a possible strike, according to his spokeswoman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier updates:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Leaders of SEIU Local 1021, which represents BART station agents janitors and some other workers, are gathering in the lobby of the Caltrans building in Oakland — an announcement of some kind appears imminent. Talks have continued all day between BART and its two biggest unions, again with the possibility of a strike being called for tomorrow. Roxanne Sanchez, president of SEIU Local 1021, announced early this afternoon the unions will do their best to announce the status of negotiations and Thursday train service by 10 p.m. tonight. By way of a mini-development in the saga, Antonette Bryant, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said later her union had not been consulted about the promise to make an early strike/no strike call this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by way of our reporter Alex Emslie, here's the scene outside the Caltrans District 4 headquarters this evening as the media hunkers down for its nightly BART vigil:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BART&src=hash\">#BART\u003c/a> nightwatch beginning. Reporter I relieved said no guarantee of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a> yes or no by 10, despite earlier info. \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/ktP6F4wQGE\">pic.twitter.com/ktP6F4wQGE\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Alex Emslie (@SFNewsReporter) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/statuses/390664196108476416\">October 17, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Talks adjourned just after midnight and are scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. Last night, the wait for word on the negotiations ended just after 10 p.m. when George Cohen, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, confirmed there would be no strike today. Full transcript of Cohen's remarks, by way of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>, our reporter staking out the talks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thanks for bearing with us. I have a very brief statement, and I will not be taking any questions. You all should understand that bargaining continues to take place. Under our auspices, parties have made some progress, and the parties have authorized me to advise you that on behalf of themselves and in support of the public interest and all the riders in this area, there will be train service operating all day tomorrow. I appreciate your attention and your understanding that we are intimately involved in the negotiation process. We're devoting all our efforts and energy to achieve an agreement, for the parties to achieve an agreement. And I will not be taking any questions, and I thank you for forbearing. Good evening.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/115040/bart-strike-deadline-tuesday-update-marathon-talks-continue","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4564","news_269","news_19904","news_214","news_794"],"featImg":"news_115416","label":"news_6944"},"news_115096":{"type":"posts","id":"news_115096","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"115096","score":null,"sort":[1381973302000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ac-transit-faces-strike-waits-for-answer-on-cooling-off-request","title":"No AC Transit Strike for Now; Gov. Brown Steps In","publishDate":1381973302,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/06/ac-transit-strike-deadline-update/actransit20130806-640/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105881\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-105881\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/actransit20130806-640.jpg\" alt=\"An AC Transit bus waits at Macarthur BART station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit bus waits at MacArthur BART station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:40 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Gov. Jerry Brown just announced that he is appointing a board to investigate the contract dispute between AC Transit and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 – ending the immediate threat of a strike. The three-person board is to report back to Brown in seven days. After receiving the report, and based on its findings, Brown can then petition a court to call a 60-day cooling-off period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's letter to both AC Transit and ATU Local 192 said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At the request of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, I am appointing a board to investigate the strike noticed by ATU Local 192 that threatens to disrupt public transportation services in the Bay Area. This board is appointed under the authority of Government Code section 3612, subdivision (a), because a strike will, if permitted to occur, significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public’s health, safety, or welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three individuals appointed to the board of investigation are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Southworth, Chairperson\u003cbr>\nJosie Camacho\u003cbr>\nMicki Callahan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Government Code prohibits any strike or lockout while the board completes its investigation. (Gov. Code, § 3612, subd. (b).)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is directed to provide me with a written report within seven days. For the sake of the people of the Bay Area, I urge both sides to take this matter seriously and to continue working to find a fair solution.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Southworth has been deputy secretary and general counsel at the California Transportation Agency since 2013. He held multiple positions at the California Attorney General’s Office from 1997 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho has been executive secretary-treasurer at the Alameda Labor Council since 2010. She was director of constituent services in the Office of Mayor Ron Dellums from 2007 to 2009. She is a founder of the national Asian Pacific Islander constituency group and has served on the board of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and Congresswoman Barbara Lee's advisory committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan has been director of Human Resources for the City and County of San Francisco since 2007, where she served as employee relations director in 2005. She held multiple positions at the State Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1996 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c!--more-->Update, 3:10 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Officials with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 say they will return to negotiations with AC Transit later today. Gov. Jerry Brown still hasn't announced whether he will grant the district's request to initiate a 60-day cooling-off period in the dispute. ATU 192 has notified AC Transit it could strike as early as midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Still no word from Gov. Jerry Brown's office on whether he will start the process for a cooling-off period. AC Transit officials said this morning they've sent a letter to Yvonne Williams, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 president, seeking a resumption of talks in the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Tuesday):\u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown has yet to act on a week-old request from the East Bay's AC Transit for a 60-day cooling-off period to head off what could be a transit nightmare for many in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the union representing the district's 1,800 bus drivers, mechanics and other workers gave notice they could strike as early as 12:01 a.m. Thursday. That would force the 100,000 or so people who ride AC Transit every weekday, including 7,000 or so transbay riders, to seek alternate transportation. And with a BART strike also possible, a bus strike would eliminate a key option for stranded train riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AC Transit contract dispute has been simmering for months, with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/AC-Transit-workers-reject-2nd-contract-offer-4863342.php\" target=\"_blank\">twice rejecting contract offers\u003c/a> from the district. AC Transit officials asked Brown last week to start the process that could lead to a 60-day cooling-off period but didn't disclose that until the union issued its strike notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3610-3616\" target=\"_blank\">state law\u003c/a>, a governor can start the process when he or she determines a transit strike would \"significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public's health, safety or welfare.\" Just as he did in August when BART was on the verge of a strike, Brown would begin the process by appointing a board of inquiry. Depending on the board's finding, he could request (and would likely get) a court order for a cooling-off period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the BART contract battle, the AC Transit standoff involves big financial issues. The contract voted down earlier this month included 3 percent pay increases in the first two years of a three-year contract, with 3.5 percent in the third year. But the contract also includes a substantial increase in health-care payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our members really felt strongly they couldn't absorb was the cost of the health-care premiums, up to $283 a month,\" Local 192 President Yvonne Williams said earlier today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides have not held negotiations in more than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Board report due to Brown in seven days, after which he could initiate a 60-day cooling off period.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1381973286,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":859},"headData":{"title":"No AC Transit Strike for Now; Gov. Brown Steps In | KQED","description":"Board report due to Brown in seven days, after which he could initiate a 60-day cooling off period.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"115096 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=115096","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/16/ac-transit-faces-strike-waits-for-answer-on-cooling-off-request/","disqusTitle":"No AC Transit Strike for Now; Gov. Brown Steps In","customPermalink":"2013/10/15/115096/","path":"/news/115096/ac-transit-faces-strike-waits-for-answer-on-cooling-off-request","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/06/ac-transit-strike-deadline-update/actransit20130806-640/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105881\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-105881\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/actransit20130806-640.jpg\" alt=\"An AC Transit bus waits at Macarthur BART station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit bus waits at MacArthur BART station in Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:40 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Gov. Jerry Brown just announced that he is appointing a board to investigate the contract dispute between AC Transit and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 – ending the immediate threat of a strike. The three-person board is to report back to Brown in seven days. After receiving the report, and based on its findings, Brown can then petition a court to call a 60-day cooling-off period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's letter to both AC Transit and ATU Local 192 said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At the request of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, I am appointing a board to investigate the strike noticed by ATU Local 192 that threatens to disrupt public transportation services in the Bay Area. This board is appointed under the authority of Government Code section 3612, subdivision (a), because a strike will, if permitted to occur, significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public’s health, safety, or welfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three individuals appointed to the board of investigation are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Southworth, Chairperson\u003cbr>\nJosie Camacho\u003cbr>\nMicki Callahan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Government Code prohibits any strike or lockout while the board completes its investigation. (Gov. Code, § 3612, subd. (b).)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is directed to provide me with a written report within seven days. For the sake of the people of the Bay Area, I urge both sides to take this matter seriously and to continue working to find a fair solution.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Southworth has been deputy secretary and general counsel at the California Transportation Agency since 2013. He held multiple positions at the California Attorney General’s Office from 1997 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camacho has been executive secretary-treasurer at the Alameda Labor Council since 2010. She was director of constituent services in the Office of Mayor Ron Dellums from 2007 to 2009. She is a founder of the national Asian Pacific Islander constituency group and has served on the board of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and Congresswoman Barbara Lee's advisory committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan has been director of Human Resources for the City and County of San Francisco since 2007, where she served as employee relations director in 2005. She held multiple positions at the State Mediation and Conciliation Service from 1996 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c!--more-->Update, 3:10 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Officials with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 say they will return to negotiations with AC Transit later today. Gov. Jerry Brown still hasn't announced whether he will grant the district's request to initiate a 60-day cooling-off period in the dispute. ATU 192 has notified AC Transit it could strike as early as midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Still no word from Gov. Jerry Brown's office on whether he will start the process for a cooling-off period. AC Transit officials said this morning they've sent a letter to Yvonne Williams, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 president, seeking a resumption of talks in the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Tuesday):\u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown has yet to act on a week-old request from the East Bay's AC Transit for a 60-day cooling-off period to head off what could be a transit nightmare for many in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, the union representing the district's 1,800 bus drivers, mechanics and other workers gave notice they could strike as early as 12:01 a.m. Thursday. That would force the 100,000 or so people who ride AC Transit every weekday, including 7,000 or so transbay riders, to seek alternate transportation. And with a BART strike also possible, a bus strike would eliminate a key option for stranded train riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AC Transit contract dispute has been simmering for months, with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/AC-Transit-workers-reject-2nd-contract-offer-4863342.php\" target=\"_blank\">twice rejecting contract offers\u003c/a> from the district. AC Transit officials asked Brown last week to start the process that could lead to a 60-day cooling-off period but didn't disclose that until the union issued its strike notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3610-3616\" target=\"_blank\">state law\u003c/a>, a governor can start the process when he or she determines a transit strike would \"significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger the public's health, safety or welfare.\" Just as he did in August when BART was on the verge of a strike, Brown would begin the process by appointing a board of inquiry. Depending on the board's finding, he could request (and would likely get) a court order for a cooling-off period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in the BART contract battle, the AC Transit standoff involves big financial issues. The contract voted down earlier this month included 3 percent pay increases in the first two years of a three-year contract, with 3.5 percent in the third year. But the contract also includes a substantial increase in health-care payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What our members really felt strongly they couldn't absorb was the cost of the health-care premiums, up to $283 a month,\" Local 192 President Yvonne Williams said earlier today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides have not held negotiations in more than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/115096/ac-transit-faces-strike-waits-for-answer-on-cooling-off-request","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_2505","news_4564","news_19904","news_18","news_2684"],"featImg":"news_105881","label":"news_6944"},"news_102612":{"type":"posts","id":"news_102612","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"102612","score":null,"sort":[1373008212000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bart-strike-update-strike-suspended-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon","title":"BART Strike Update: Unions Returning to Work as Talks Continue; Trains Will Roll Today","publishDate":1373008212,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Oakland-Strike.jpg\" alt=\"(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART management, unions, and state mediators announced last night that the striking workers have agreed to go back to work this morning. Service is scheduled to begin today at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marty Morgenstern, the state secretary of labor, announced after about 10 hours of Fourth of July talks that the parties have agreed to continue negotiations with a target of concluding a new agreement by August 4. Until then, the current contract will remain in force. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contract will be extended until Aug. 4, the parties will continue to negotiate just as hard as they are now, as long hours as are necessary, to reach an agreement on a new contract,\" Morgenstern said. \"The new contract will be retroactive to July 1st, when the old one ran out.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART and the striking SEIU Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 appeared to be near impasse earlier in the day. When asked what the prospects are of the two sides reaching an agreement by Aug. 4, Morgenstern said they were \"close enough that we'll get there.\" Pressed about issues that remain to be decided, Morgenstern laughed and said, \"I don't have that much time.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What this means to the riding public is that the trains will be open tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock,\" said BART General Manager Grace Crunican. \"I'd like to thank the unions for being party to this agreement.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nBut Crunican and union representatives said the two sides remain far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the issues that brought us to this point remain unresolved,\" Crunican said. \"Despite lots of hard work, BART and its unions have failed to come to an agreement on contract issues that matter to all of us today and into the future. We still have a wide gap of disagreements to bridge over the next 30 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU and ATU officials said after Morgenstern's announcement that talks this week had produced little progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josie Mooney, a chief negotiator for SEIU, Local 1021, said late Thursday that there's still a lot of work left to do and asked the public to keep the parties on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand together tonight and we expect to be standing together with a new contract at the end of August 4 and we hope to goodness that you insist that all the parties do the right thing,\" Mooney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal issues in the dispute are pay, pensions, and worker contributions to health benefits. The unions have sought a wage increase of more than 20 percent for the next four years after agreeing to a freeze and granting $100 million in concessions on their last contract, negotiated in 2009, when BART faced a steep deficit. Management wants workers to make pay more for health benefits—most make a flat $92 monthly payment for family coverage— and to begin to contribute to their pension plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgenstern said last night's agreement to go back to work without a new contract having been negotiated is different from an imposed cooling-off period because \"the parties agreed to this themselves, at our recommendation.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend declined a union request to go to court for a 60-day cooling-off period while encouraging the unions to work for an agreement before their contracts expired at midnight on June 30. One reason the governor may have refused to step in: The 60-day period would have ended close to Labor Day weekend, when Caltrans is planning to close the Bay Bridge prior to opening its new eastern span. A BART walkout at the same time would likely paralyze transportation in most of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-plus-day strike didn't bring the region to its knees, but it triggered long commute delays and widespread frustration at the loss of the centerpiece of the region's transit system. Judging both by polls taken by media organizations and from the large volume and bitter tone of complaints aired on social media, the walkout was very unpopular with many in what both BART and the unions call \"the riding public.\" \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1373034296,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":690},"headData":{"title":"BART Strike Update: Unions Returning to Work as Talks Continue; Trains Will Roll Today | KQED","description":"BART management, unions, and state mediators announced last night that the striking workers have agreed to go back to work this morning. Service is scheduled to begin today at 3 p.m. Marty Morgenstern, the state secretary of labor, announced after about 10 hours of Fourth of July talks that the parties have agreed to continue","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"102612 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=102612","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/05/bart-strike-update-strike-suspended-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon/","disqusTitle":"BART Strike Update: Unions Returning to Work as Talks Continue; Trains Will Roll Today","customPermalink":"2013/07/04/bart-strike-update-strike-over-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon/","path":"/news/102612/bart-strike-update-strike-suspended-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Oakland-Strike.jpg\" alt=\"(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART management, unions, and state mediators announced last night that the striking workers have agreed to go back to work this morning. Service is scheduled to begin today at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marty Morgenstern, the state secretary of labor, announced after about 10 hours of Fourth of July talks that the parties have agreed to continue negotiations with a target of concluding a new agreement by August 4. Until then, the current contract will remain in force. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The contract will be extended until Aug. 4, the parties will continue to negotiate just as hard as they are now, as long hours as are necessary, to reach an agreement on a new contract,\" Morgenstern said. \"The new contract will be retroactive to July 1st, when the old one ran out.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART and the striking SEIU Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 appeared to be near impasse earlier in the day. When asked what the prospects are of the two sides reaching an agreement by Aug. 4, Morgenstern said they were \"close enough that we'll get there.\" Pressed about issues that remain to be decided, Morgenstern laughed and said, \"I don't have that much time.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What this means to the riding public is that the trains will be open tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock,\" said BART General Manager Grace Crunican. \"I'd like to thank the unions for being party to this agreement.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nBut Crunican and union representatives said the two sides remain far apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the issues that brought us to this point remain unresolved,\" Crunican said. \"Despite lots of hard work, BART and its unions have failed to come to an agreement on contract issues that matter to all of us today and into the future. We still have a wide gap of disagreements to bridge over the next 30 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU and ATU officials said after Morgenstern's announcement that talks this week had produced little progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josie Mooney, a chief negotiator for SEIU, Local 1021, said late Thursday that there's still a lot of work left to do and asked the public to keep the parties on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand together tonight and we expect to be standing together with a new contract at the end of August 4 and we hope to goodness that you insist that all the parties do the right thing,\" Mooney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal issues in the dispute are pay, pensions, and worker contributions to health benefits. The unions have sought a wage increase of more than 20 percent for the next four years after agreeing to a freeze and granting $100 million in concessions on their last contract, negotiated in 2009, when BART faced a steep deficit. Management wants workers to make pay more for health benefits—most make a flat $92 monthly payment for family coverage— and to begin to contribute to their pension plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgenstern said last night's agreement to go back to work without a new contract having been negotiated is different from an imposed cooling-off period because \"the parties agreed to this themselves, at our recommendation.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend declined a union request to go to court for a 60-day cooling-off period while encouraging the unions to work for an agreement before their contracts expired at midnight on June 30. One reason the governor may have refused to step in: The 60-day period would have ended close to Labor Day weekend, when Caltrans is planning to close the Bay Bridge prior to opening its new eastern span. A BART walkout at the same time would likely paralyze transportation in most of the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-plus-day strike didn't bring the region to its knees, but it triggered long commute delays and widespread frustration at the loss of the centerpiece of the region's transit system. Judging both by polls taken by media organizations and from the large volume and bitter tone of complaints aired on social media, the walkout was very unpopular with many in what both BART and the unions call \"the riding public.\" \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/102612/bart-strike-update-strike-suspended-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4564","news_269","news_19904","news_214"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_101920":{"type":"posts","id":"news_101920","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"101920","score":null,"sort":[1372662019000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bart-strike-deadline-update-governor-brown-enters-talks","title":"BART Strike Update (July 1): The Strike Is On ","publishDate":1372662019,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 4, 2013, coverage of potential BART strike 2.0: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/04/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-go-down-to-the-wire-again/\" target=\"_blank\">BART Strike Deadline Update: Talks Go Down to the Wire, Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> California Secretary of Labor Marty Morgenstern announced at about 10:50 p.m. in Oakland that BART's two striking unions have agreed to return to work as negotiations with management continue. Train service is to resume at 3 p.m. Friday. More details: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/04/bart-strike-update-strike-over-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon/\" target=\"_blank\">Strike is over, for now: Unions agree to return to work while talks continue\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find more coverage on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\">Wednesday's strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find more coverage on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/02/bart-strike-update-day-two-live-blog/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday's strike\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Find more coverage on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/01/bart-strike-update-day-1-early-morning-commute-going-smoothly/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday's strike\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84338\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/31/new-years-eve-free-buses-trains-cabs-and-tows-and-extended-bart-service/bart-8/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84338\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-84338\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/bart-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An eastbound BART train departs San Francisco's 24th Street/Mission station. \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eastbound BART train departs San Francisco's 24th Street/Mission station.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest (12:01 a.m. Monday):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BART's two main unions have announced that talks have failed and they are on strike. \u003c/strong> \u003c/em> It's BART's first strike since 1997.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Unions say members will stay on the job after the midnight deadline to complete all scheduled runs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Earlier, contract talks between BART management and the two main unions -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/category/where-we-work/special-districts/bay-area-rapid-transit-district-bart/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union Local 1021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=218018\" target=\"_blank\">Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555\u003c/a> -- came to an end about 8:30 p.m. this evening. The two sides met with a state-appointed mediator for about 5½ hours at Caltrans District 4 headquarters in Oakland. BART reportedly says it will have no new offers this evening for the unions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After unions left the negotiations, ATU Local 1555 President Antonette Bryant apologized for the actions she said workers had been forced to take. \"We came here as a last-ditch effort as requested by the governor's office, to sit down with this employer to try and see if they would present us with a proposal that we could work with.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Josie Mooney, head of the BART chapter of the SEIU Local 1021, said: \"In the event they change their mind and want to offer a proposal that we can represent to our members as a fair and equitable contract proposal, we will be waiting until midnight.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And the statement from BART negotiator Rick Rice after the talks broke up: “While we do not have official word from the unions about a strike we must caution riders that a strike may commence after the end of regularly scheduled service today. We have a long way to go but we can’t get any closer if we aren’t at the table. We reached tentative agreements on 11 items today and we should use that momentum to reach a deal. Walking away doesn’t do any good. The public doesn’t deserve to be punished. We are sorry they have decided to strike despite the fact we are willing to negotiate. The District is prepared to return to talks and get this finished. We would have worked all night long.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As union leaders suggested in their comments, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has taken an active interest in the negotiations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23572209/gov-s-office-asks-that-sf-transit-talks?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">By way of the Associated Press\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Marty Morgenstern, Brown's secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, requested that\u003cbr>\ntalks continue between Service Employees International Union Local 1021, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and BART representatives, Brown spokesman Evan Westrup said Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westrup added that the governor will not call for a \"cooling off period\" and state mediators will continue assisting the negotiating parties as the unions' contracts are set to expire at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART and its labor unions owe the public a swift resolution of their differences,\" Westrup said. \"All parties should be at the table doing their best to find common ground.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee also commented on the possible strike: \"I join Gov. Brown in urging BART union and management leaders to return to the bargaining table.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/traffic/ci_23567913/bart-strike-saturday-talks-resume-new-proposals-planned\" target=\"_blank\">BART has apparently doubled its salary proposal\u003c/a>, from 4 percent over four years to 8 percent. But they delivered that proposed increase at the end of the day Saturday after union negotiators had departed talks in Oakland. Unions, which agreed to no salary increase in 2009, have been seeking an increase of 23 percent over the life of the contract.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The unions question whether BART's offer is all the agency says it is. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-talks-continue-strike-deadline-looms-4639593.php\" target=\"_blank\">From Michael Cabanatuan\u003c/a> and John King in the San Francisco Chronicle:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Union officials disagree (that BART has doubled its offer). The extra 1 percent pay per year that BART offered in the latest proposal is contingent, they said, on factors ranging from ambitious ridership increases and sales tax revenues to reductions in the number of employees seeking Family Medical Leave Act absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the surface it looks like a raise,\" (Antonette) Bryant (president of ATU Local 1555) said. \"But it's not really a raise. It certainly leaves us in the red -- 3 to 4 percent lower than our wages now.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In other BART-related salary news: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23562407/barts-top-level-employees-vacation-bank-tops-69?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area News Group's Thomas Peele reported\u003c/a> Saturday that the transit agency owes its top-tier employees almost $8 million in accrued vacation pay. In fact, some employees have so much vacation time stacked that they'll be paid for a year or more after leaving the job. That group used to include ousted General Manager Dorothy Dugger, who was paid $330,000 in accrued vacation pay last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101947\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/30/bart-strike-deadline-update-jerry-brown-enters-talks/005-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101947\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101947\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/005-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds from San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration throng BART's Civic Center station on Sunday. (KQED/Deb Svoboda)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds from San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration throng BART's Civic Center station on Sunday. (KQED/Deb Svoboda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meantime, BART is taking some heat (via Twitter anyway) for sticking to a Sunday schedule --fewer trains, no direct Richmond or Fremont service from San Francisco -- even as today's huge Pride crowd descended on the city (and a smaller crowd headed out to the Oakland Coliseum to see the A's beat the St. Louis Cardinals). BART announced it was the largest Sunday ridership in the system's history.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>* * * \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>If the strike happens: \u003c/strong>We'll see as many as 200,000 people looking for another way to get to work or school or the airport (the 400,000 figure we see in connection with BART weekday ridership refers to individual fare-gate entries, not individual riders). And even though that's estimated to be just 5 percent of the people who travel around the Bay Area every day, that will be enough to create commute chaos (or BARTocalypse, according to our super-intern Alex Emslie). Things will be especially tough in the BART-dependent East Bay. The best resource we've seen for transit alternatives is \u003ca href=\"http://alert.511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org's BART Strike Info\u003c/a> page. If you're trying to figure out how to get around in a BART-less world Monday, check there first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>* * *\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will AC Transit strike?\u003c/strong> The East Bay's principal bus transit agency is facing a driver walkout that could also occur at midnight. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtc.ca.gov/library/statsum/StatSumm_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Latest statistics\u003c/a> from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission show AC Transit has about 190,000 passenger boardings each weekday.) The chief effect would be to make the commute from the East Bay even more nightmarish than it will be with BART shut down. AC Transit reported Sunday there is some movement toward a settlement, and the agency's board is set to meet late this afternoon in Oakland to discuss the contract situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/danbrekke/bart-strike-deadline-update\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"BART Strike Deadline Update\" on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1383092635,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1214},"headData":{"title":"BART Strike Update (July 1): The Strike Is On | KQED","description":"Aug. 4, 2013, coverage of potential BART strike 2.0: BART Strike Deadline Update: Talks Go Down to the Wire, Again Update: California Secretary of Labor Marty Morgenstern announced at about 10:50 p.m. in Oakland that BART's two striking unions have agreed to return to work as negotiations with management continue. Train service is to resume","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"101920 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=101920","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/01/bart-strike-deadline-update-governor-brown-enters-talks/","disqusTitle":"BART Strike Update (July 1): The Strike Is On ","customPermalink":"2013/06/30/bart-strike-deadline-update-jerry-brown-enters-talks/","path":"/news/101920/bart-strike-deadline-update-governor-brown-enters-talks","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 4, 2013, coverage of potential BART strike 2.0: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/04/bart-strike-deadline-update-talks-go-down-to-the-wire-again/\" target=\"_blank\">BART Strike Deadline Update: Talks Go Down to the Wire, Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> California Secretary of Labor Marty Morgenstern announced at about 10:50 p.m. in Oakland that BART's two striking unions have agreed to return to work as negotiations with management continue. Train service is to resume at 3 p.m. Friday. More details: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/04/bart-strike-update-strike-over-trains-will-roll-friday-afternoon/\" target=\"_blank\">Strike is over, for now: Unions agree to return to work while talks continue\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find more coverage on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\">Wednesday's strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find more coverage on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/02/bart-strike-update-day-two-live-blog/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday's strike\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Find more coverage on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/01/bart-strike-update-day-1-early-morning-commute-going-smoothly/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday's strike\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84338\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/31/new-years-eve-free-buses-trains-cabs-and-tows-and-extended-bart-service/bart-8/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84338\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-84338\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/bart-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An eastbound BART train departs San Francisco's 24th Street/Mission station. \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An eastbound BART train departs San Francisco's 24th Street/Mission station.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest (12:01 a.m. Monday):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BART's two main unions have announced that talks have failed and they are on strike. \u003c/strong> \u003c/em> It's BART's first strike since 1997.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Unions say members will stay on the job after the midnight deadline to complete all scheduled runs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Earlier, contract talks between BART management and the two main unions -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/category/where-we-work/special-districts/bay-area-rapid-transit-district-bart/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union Local 1021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.atu1555.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=218018\" target=\"_blank\">Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555\u003c/a> -- came to an end about 8:30 p.m. this evening. The two sides met with a state-appointed mediator for about 5½ hours at Caltrans District 4 headquarters in Oakland. BART reportedly says it will have no new offers this evening for the unions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After unions left the negotiations, ATU Local 1555 President Antonette Bryant apologized for the actions she said workers had been forced to take. \"We came here as a last-ditch effort as requested by the governor's office, to sit down with this employer to try and see if they would present us with a proposal that we could work with.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Josie Mooney, head of the BART chapter of the SEIU Local 1021, said: \"In the event they change their mind and want to offer a proposal that we can represent to our members as a fair and equitable contract proposal, we will be waiting until midnight.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And the statement from BART negotiator Rick Rice after the talks broke up: “While we do not have official word from the unions about a strike we must caution riders that a strike may commence after the end of regularly scheduled service today. We have a long way to go but we can’t get any closer if we aren’t at the table. We reached tentative agreements on 11 items today and we should use that momentum to reach a deal. Walking away doesn’t do any good. The public doesn’t deserve to be punished. We are sorry they have decided to strike despite the fact we are willing to negotiate. The District is prepared to return to talks and get this finished. We would have worked all night long.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As union leaders suggested in their comments, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has taken an active interest in the negotiations. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23572209/gov-s-office-asks-that-sf-transit-talks?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">By way of the Associated Press\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Marty Morgenstern, Brown's secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, requested that\u003cbr>\ntalks continue between Service Employees International Union Local 1021, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and BART representatives, Brown spokesman Evan Westrup said Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westrup added that the governor will not call for a \"cooling off period\" and state mediators will continue assisting the negotiating parties as the unions' contracts are set to expire at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART and its labor unions owe the public a swift resolution of their differences,\" Westrup said. \"All parties should be at the table doing their best to find common ground.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee also commented on the possible strike: \"I join Gov. Brown in urging BART union and management leaders to return to the bargaining table.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/traffic/ci_23567913/bart-strike-saturday-talks-resume-new-proposals-planned\" target=\"_blank\">BART has apparently doubled its salary proposal\u003c/a>, from 4 percent over four years to 8 percent. But they delivered that proposed increase at the end of the day Saturday after union negotiators had departed talks in Oakland. Unions, which agreed to no salary increase in 2009, have been seeking an increase of 23 percent over the life of the contract.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The unions question whether BART's offer is all the agency says it is. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-talks-continue-strike-deadline-looms-4639593.php\" target=\"_blank\">From Michael Cabanatuan\u003c/a> and John King in the San Francisco Chronicle:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Union officials disagree (that BART has doubled its offer). The extra 1 percent pay per year that BART offered in the latest proposal is contingent, they said, on factors ranging from ambitious ridership increases and sales tax revenues to reductions in the number of employees seeking Family Medical Leave Act absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the surface it looks like a raise,\" (Antonette) Bryant (president of ATU Local 1555) said. \"But it's not really a raise. It certainly leaves us in the red -- 3 to 4 percent lower than our wages now.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In other BART-related salary news: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23562407/barts-top-level-employees-vacation-bank-tops-69?source=pkg\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area News Group's Thomas Peele reported\u003c/a> Saturday that the transit agency owes its top-tier employees almost $8 million in accrued vacation pay. In fact, some employees have so much vacation time stacked that they'll be paid for a year or more after leaving the job. That group used to include ousted General Manager Dorothy Dugger, who was paid $330,000 in accrued vacation pay last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101947\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/30/bart-strike-deadline-update-jerry-brown-enters-talks/005-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101947\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101947\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/005-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds from San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration throng BART's Civic Center station on Sunday. (KQED/Deb Svoboda)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds from San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration throng BART's Civic Center station on Sunday. (KQED/Deb Svoboda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meantime, BART is taking some heat (via Twitter anyway) for sticking to a Sunday schedule --fewer trains, no direct Richmond or Fremont service from San Francisco -- even as today's huge Pride crowd descended on the city (and a smaller crowd headed out to the Oakland Coliseum to see the A's beat the St. Louis Cardinals). BART announced it was the largest Sunday ridership in the system's history.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>* * * \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>If the strike happens: \u003c/strong>We'll see as many as 200,000 people looking for another way to get to work or school or the airport (the 400,000 figure we see in connection with BART weekday ridership refers to individual fare-gate entries, not individual riders). And even though that's estimated to be just 5 percent of the people who travel around the Bay Area every day, that will be enough to create commute chaos (or BARTocalypse, according to our super-intern Alex Emslie). Things will be especially tough in the BART-dependent East Bay. The best resource we've seen for transit alternatives is \u003ca href=\"http://alert.511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org's BART Strike Info\u003c/a> page. If you're trying to figure out how to get around in a BART-less world Monday, check there first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>* * *\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will AC Transit strike?\u003c/strong> The East Bay's principal bus transit agency is facing a driver walkout that could also occur at midnight. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtc.ca.gov/library/statsum/StatSumm_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Latest statistics\u003c/a> from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission show AC Transit has about 190,000 passenger boardings each weekday.) The chief effect would be to make the commute from the East Bay even more nightmarish than it will be with BART shut down. AC Transit reported Sunday there is some movement toward a settlement, and the agency's board is set to meet late this afternoon in Oakland to discuss the contract situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/danbrekke/bart-strike-deadline-update\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"BART Strike Deadline Update\" on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/101920/bart-strike-deadline-update-governor-brown-enters-talks","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4564","news_269","news_4562","news_19904","news_214"],"label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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