SF News Monday Morning Headlines: VTA Worker Strike Means No Transit In South Bay VTA workers are on strike as of today, halting transit in San Jose; three lost hikers, including two small children, were rescued in the Santa Cruz Mountains; and DC is removing a prominent Black Lives Matter mural.
SF News Hollywood's Strike Reaches Silicon Valley: Writers, Actors, and Activists Picket Netflix HQ in Los Gatos Amid the nationwide SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strike, writers and actors including Sorry to Bother You's Michael Sommers protested Netflix's office in the South Bay Thursday.
SF News State Senate Committee Kills Proposed BART Strike Ban The on-again off-again nightmare of last year's BART strikes and BART strike threats have come to an end as the final and largest union gave their sign-off on the contract this week. Also
SF News BART Board Mulls Banning Strikes; Tensions Over Contract Provisions Still Ongoing A BART board member has suggested that the rail concern put its own measure on the ballot in the next few years to disallow BART worker unions from striking in the event of
SF News Unions Scored With 3.8% Wage Increases In BART Negotiations Details emerged last night about the deal struck between BART management and their workers' unions on Monday, and the unions certainly came close to getting what they wanted by the 11th hour. The
SF News BART Rolls On, and So Do Negotiations Yet again this morning, like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, there is no BART strike, but there could still be one. Everyone's been very mature, and negotiations continued
SF News BART Management Offers 'Take-It-Or-Leave-It' Contract Deal, Unions Pissed We're facing yet another midnight deadline tonight in the ongoing strike threat, the third in a row since Friday, and BART management have apparently presented their best and "final" offer to the unions
SF News BART Strike Averted, At Least Until Monday Although BART and the two transit unions still couldn't arrive at a deal before last night's midnight deadline, both sides agreed to a three day contract extension to keep the trains running over
SF News Yep. The BART Strike Is Really Probably Happening. Again. Maybe. Though the unions declined to issue a 72-hour strike warning earlier this week in what we thought was a positive sign, tensions have mounted and things don't look great as tonight's midnight deadline
SF News There Won't Be Another BART Strike This Week (Unless There Is) Although both sides have yet to agree on a new contract, the unions have decided not to issue a 72-hour strike notice for Friday. It's a good sign that there will not be
SF News BART Strike Looms. Again. Commence Fretting. Remember June? And July? And then August? Yeah, it's happening again. Because 2013 is Groundhog Day when it comes to BART and its unions. The 60-day cooling-off period ends on October 10th, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Fast Food Workers Strike For Better Pay Although potentially less debilitating than a BART strike, hundreds fast food workers walked out of their low-paying jobs at McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken locations in Oakland today to demand better pay and
SF News Another BART Strike Averted; 60-Day Cooling Off Begins Breathe easy, East Bay commuters. A San Francisco Superior Court judge has approved the 60-day cooling off period requested by Governor Brown in the ongoing BART labor negotiations, so we've averted another BART
SF News It All Comes Out: BART And Unions Still $100 Million Apart [Updated] A public hearing took place today at which BART and its three employee unions were scheduled to make presentations before a panel of state investigators charged with figuring out why the negotiation process
SF News Why Have We Heard So Little From BART Workers About the Strike? We have to hand it to the SF Bay Guardian's Joe Fitzgerald, because even though he's only got two detailed interviews with actual BART workers talking about their real-world concerns about wages and
SF News Now AC Transit Workers May Strike Wednesday You'll recall that the AC Transit workers's union authorized a strike back in late June, at the same time BART workers did, and now, not wanting to feel left out of the strike
SF News BART Strike Averted This Week; Governor Brown Takes Charge Late Sunday evening, BART management asked Governor Jerry Brown to step in to stop a strike from happening by its employee unions. He did, and the unions are pissed. Brown appointed a three-person
SF News BART 72-Hour Strike Notice Could Come Today BART's unions have indicated that they could announce a 72-hour strike warning today if talks with BART negotiators don't markedly improve this afternoon. The unions also have a rally and march planned in
SF News BART Negotiations Get Contentious, Could End In Higher Fares This does not bode well for the looming BART strike that could bring commuter rail to a halt for a second time starting next Monday. As BART representatives met with union leaders yesterday,
SF News Are We Seriously Heading For a Second BART Strike? We are, very possibly, looking at another BART strike next Monday if contract negotiations between BART and two of its employee unions don't drastically improve in the next few days. As always happens
SF News Unions Have Big Leverage If BART Strike Resumes BART workers are threatening an even longer strike if contract negotiations can't be settled by the early August extended deadline, and they've got a major piece of leverage in their back pocket, codified
SF News Silicon Valley: Just A Bunch Of Elitist Union Busters? Remember that despicable and elitist piece by PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy about how the BART strike was crippling the nascent tech boom on Mid-Market? Well, it's inspired a much better informed retort from Kevin
SF News Oakland City Workers Also On Strike [UPDATED] Coincidentally, or not, two unions representing 2,470 city employees in Oakland are staging a one-day walkout today, the same day as the BART strike, in protest of what they say are stagnant
SF News Possible BART Strike Looms This Week or Next BART employee unions are coming up on another expiration of their four-year contracts on July 1, and like they did in 2009 and 2005, they are again threatening to strike. But is the
SF News Concession Workers Strike Outside AT&T Park Today If you're heading to AT&T Park today to see the Giants take on the Rockies, you might come across another heated battle. An estimated 750 concession workers are on a one-day
