San Francisco
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.
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.
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.
Somebody tells me that Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin is in a zone this offseason.
One month after helping the Baltimore Ravens trump the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, wide receiver Anquan Boldin is now joining them.
Lunar New Year celebrations began around the world today to mark the beginning of the Year of the Snake. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are celebrating with family in mainland China and around the world, including one astronaut in outer space.
Opinions clash over his return to work after domestic violence case involving Ross Mirkarimi's soap actress wife
