SF News BART Has No Idea How To Cover New Labor Deal's $77 Million In Raises Even if BART can manage to get voters to agree to that $3.5 billion infrastructure bond they want to put on the November ballot, it's not like all their money worries will
SF News S.F. Man Throws Hammer At Striking BART Workers The attitude aimed at striking BART workers, here in the ostensibly liberal Bay Area, was nothing short of depressing. From Silicon Valley's out-of-touch attitude to angry callers on Tuesday morning's Krasny, it brought
SF News BART Strike: Day 4 Let's dive in, shall we: Monday morning's traffic proved exceptionally sluggish due to the continuing BART strike, now in its fourth day. Over the weekend, a couple of noted tech folks made mistakes
SF News BART Strike Slightly Snarls Morning Commute This morning's commute, tinged with a lack of BART due to the strike, saw crowded freeways and slightly more packed bus routes. In an effort to ease the pain caused by management and
SF News AC Transit Strike Averted In Last-Minute Deal A possible strike was called off hours before the midnight deadline that would have seen 1,800 drivers, mechanics, and AC Transit dispatchers walk off the job in labor disputes. The compromise calls
SF News BART Strike: Day 4, Limited 4th of July Charter Bus Service [Updated] UPDATE: BART service to resume Friday afternoon. After a ten hours of talks on Wednesday, neither BART nor the unions came to an agreement. And thus the Bart strike enters its fourth day.
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 BART Strike: Interstate 80 And 580 Nightmare While neither the 80 nor the 580 are particularly roomy during Monday commutes, today's BART strike just announced at midnight, made the trek from the East Bay to San Francisco even that more
SF News Your BART Strike Alternate Routes Now that a BART strike is "imminent" Monday morning, here are your alternate routes around the Bay Area: AC Transit: AC will be running on a regular schedule, but you can find route
SF News Uh Oh: BART Unions Give 72-hour Notice To Strike In what could result in a disastrous meltdown of public transportation, BART unions (Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021) officially gave 72-hour notice of a strike starting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 10 Arrested in Giants Concession Worker's Strike The wage dispute between Local 2 and AT&T Park's concessionaire and Centerplate boiled over again yesterday as concession workers again went on strike. Between 300 and 400 protesters gathered outside 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
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: S.F. Symphony Musicians Go On Strike After a rather tone-deaf protest at San Francisco City Hall yesterday -- where, while donning L.A. Dodgers hats, a quartet performed in front of a Giants cap on the dirty floor --
SF News Striking Wal-Mart Workers In Richmond Get Support From Elected Official Contra Costa County Congressman George Miller, who has been representing the Bay Area since 1974, is seen here showing support for workers striking at a Richmond Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Workers across the
SF News Golden Gate Ferry Strike CANCELED; Service Running [Updated] UPDATE: Strike is off! Ferry service is on. Chon reports: "Golden Gate Ferry service will run on its regular schedule [Friday], transit officials announced." Those of you who rely on Golden Gate Ferry
SF News To the Barricades! Labor Protest on Second Street They haven't started any "Hey hey, Ho ho" chants yet, but a group of protesters from the News Media Guild is staging a lunchtime protest today in front of the Associated Press offices
SF News Cal Hunger Strike Students Free to Eat Quinoa Again After UCB Chancellor Robert Birgeneau agreed to a meeting with representatives, Cal students called off their 10-day hunger strike last night. The Daily Californian, "The strike, which began May 3 as a demonstration
SF News Senator Withdraws from Cal's Latino Graduation Ceremony Senator Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles), scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the UC Berkeley Latino graduation ceremony later this month, decided to withdraw from the festivities. It seems the Senator refuses to
SF News Newsom Responds to BART Strike But what does Mayor Gavin Newsom and/or the Mayor’s Office of Communications have to say about Sunday's impending BART strike, you ask? Good question. Here's the answer. Ahem: Today, I am
SF News Previously on BART Stike: 1997 View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. Remember the BART strike of September 1997? Which lasted an entire week? Turning into a nightmare. Well, what with BART officially announcing a
SF News BART & Unions Announce Tentative Agreement; Looming Ends After teasing us over and over and over with a strike that promised to cripple public transportation and the lives of many, BART and union leaders came to a contract agreement, tentatively. According
SF News Striketease: BART's Second-Largest Union Votes Against Contract Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 -- BART's second-biggest union, representing around 900 train operators, cranky station agents, and other assorted power workers -- voted 100% against management's proposed contract yesterday. The
SF News BART Strike Averted The looming BART strike was nipped in the bud. For now, at least. According to CBS 5 / BCN, "[a]fter a marathon round of negotiations, Larry Gerber, the chief negotiator of Service Employees
SF News BART Strike Talks Move to Mediation The largest union representing BART workers voted overwhelmingly last night to authorize a strike, which btw people, would take place next Wednesday if a deal isn't reached by then. The unions have called
SF News BART Prepares Commuters for Potential Strike on July 1 Many of BART's 355,000 daily commuters are still unaware that the agency might go on strike next week, which would cause quite a meltdown throughout the Bay Area. Five unions representing 3,
