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 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 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 Is the Media Reacting Fairly To The BART Strike? Well, we're sure some of you are pissed off about the BART strike, and some of youmost likely those of who don't have to suffer commute traumaare more sympathetic to the
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
