BART Strike
The BART union worker strike continued on Monday, forcing hundreds of thousands of riders to resort to using overcrowded buses, ferries and highways during the rush hour commute.
BART trains came to a halt Friday after a deadline to resolve contract negotiations expired without a deal and union workers walked off the job. As a result, hundreds of thousands of frustrated commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area were stymied on Friday and now face a weekend without BART service.
Hundreds of thousands of commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area faced traffic jams, crowded buses and packed out ferries Friday after BART workers walked off the job a little after midnight.
BART workers left thousands of commuters in the dark Wednesday under a strike threat as marathon negotiations continued between management and two of its largest unions.
BART, the nation's fifth-busiest rail system, was still running Tuesday as the transit system's unions and management agreed to continue to negotiate throughout the night. However, although both sides managed to avoid a strike, the threat that union workers will walk off their jobs if a contract deal is not reach still stands.
BART workers agreed to keep the nation's fifth-busiest rail system open on Monday but threatened to go on strike Tuesday morning if an agreement with the transit's agency management is not reached by Monday night.
Trains in the San Francisco Bay area will be running for at least another two months since a state Superior Court judge issued a 60-day cooling-off period requested by Gov. Jerry Brown in an unusual weekend ruling on Sunday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) union leaders are threatening to go on strike (again) Monday morning if they fail to reach an agreement on a new contract this weekend with the transit agency.
The idea that BART and its union workers will reach a new contract deal by Sunday is, at best, "optimistic"—on Wednesday opposing sides were $100 million apart on basic math calculations for negotiations.
Although San Francisco Bay area commuters were relieved that Gov. Jerry Brown stepped in to prevent BART transit workers from going on strike this week, the workers of the nation's fifth largest rail system may still very well walk off their jobs next week.
California Gov. Jerry Brown stepped in between union workers and BART to prevent an impending transit strike for at least another week.
Transportation agencies in the San Francisco Bay area are "preparing for the worse," as BART, the country's fifth largest rail system, is threatening to go on strike this Monday.
A strike could shut down the San Francisco Bay area's commuter rail system by Monday morning. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) workers gave the California Bay Area transit agency a 72-hour notice on Thursday threatening to strike if a new labor deal isn't reached by a Sunday midnight deadline.
Thousands of commuters returned to the Bay Area commuter trains Friday afternoon after a four-day strike by BART workers caused crippling delays.
Despite the talks between Bay Area Rapid Transit agency officials and unions earlier this week, the San Francisco transit strike prolonged for a fourth straight day on Thursday.
