BART Trains Running Thursday, Mediator Says Progress Being Made
Bay Area Rapid Transit will continue to run train service as unions and management agreed to extend labor talks Wednesday night.
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Bay Area Rapid Transit will continue to run train service as unions and management agreed to extend labor talks Wednesday night.
Labor unions representing Bay Area Rapid Transit workers said they will tell frustrated riders in advance whether trains will be running Thursday or workers will possibly go on strike at midnight.
The mostly union-backing Democrats warned they would not support a strike and there was no extra money at the state level to increase BART's offer.
Federal mediator George Cohen said Tuesday night that parties have made some progress in the intense negotiations to avoid a second strike in more than three months.
Negotiators for Bay Area Rapid Transit and its labor unions resumed negotiations Tuesday afternoon, just hours after marathon negotiations that ended during Tuesday morning's commute.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is keeping a close eye on the potential BART strike and he's trying to minimize the impact on the city and its residents.
A federal mediator brought in to Bay Area Rapid Transit contracts talks seems to be having the effect of smoothing over roadblocks to a possible agreement, according to sources close to the talks.
Bay Area Rapid Transit will continue to run train service after unions and management agreed to extend labor talks past a midnight deadline.
Tensions escalated at the BART bargaining table Monday with the possibility of a strike on Tuesday appearing to grow stronger.
On the heels of a possible BART strike, workers for AC Transit issued their own 72-hour strike notice on Monday, which could lead to a possible walkout Thursday morning.
BART contract negotiations were set to resume Monday morning amid concerns whether BART's last minute offer to unions was a positive step or if it may have imperiled the process.
Union leaders extended a strike deadline by 24 hours Sunday night, granting Bay Area commuters a day's grace, but blasted BART leadership for what they called a refusal to negotiate.
BART negotiations were expected to resume bargaining at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Instead, the talks were put off so each side could meet in "caucus" Saturday morning.
BART's general manager is meeting with union leaders in Oakland Friday but will wait until Saturday to present a new contract proposal as a second strike by the workers looms, an agency spokeswoman said Friday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit was running trains as usual Friday after unions and management agreed to continue labor talks past a midnight deadline.
Bay Area Rapid Transit's lead negotiator is presenting union leaders with a new proposal Thursday, the final day of talks before the end of the 60-day-cooling off period.
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BART unions and management remained without a deal entering the final hours of the cooling-off period, opening the door for a possible strike. A new KPIX 5 / SurveyUSA poll found Bay Area residents are overwhelmingly against a walkout.
While BART's contract dispute continues, some Bay Area residents are thinking that they would like to work at the transit agency for the wages that are paid now. Those jobs, however, are hard to come by.
With less than three days until the cooling-off period expires, BART management and union leaders continued negotiations Tuesday. Meanwhile, transit agencies are firming up contingency plans if a second strike is called.
Labor leaders for Bay Area Rapid Transit workers say they are not giving 72-hour notice for a second strike.
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If no deal is made by the end of a cooling off period that expires at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, two of the transit agency's largest unions could walk off the job on Friday morning.
With less than a week remaining before a 60-day cooling off period ends BART and its unions went back to the bargaining table Friday morning in hopes of avoiding another transit strike on October 11th.
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