http://world.nycsubway.orgNo cooling off period for you!A member of the BART board just told SF Weekly that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has let it be known that he will not grant the transit agency's unions a 60-day cooling off period if asked -- which could ratchet up the possibility of a pending strike. At around 4:40, Doug Hoffner, the acting cabinet secretary for labor called all the chief negotiators for the transit agency and its unions and read a statement Schwarzenegger will release at ar
Just when you thought they were out ... they pull you back inYou know how BART is going to run 24 hours during Labor Day weekend while the Bay Bridge is closed? Well, maybe not! How about zero hours?A strike -- and the idea of a Dunkirk-like fleet of small boats being required to move folks across the Bay -- is once again a possibility. While BART's largest union, the SEIU Local No. 1021 enthusiastically posted its 75 percent ratification of the transit agency's labor proposal online yesterda
http://world.nycsubway.orgDid we just miss the last, best, and final train?The other day we joked about how, come Labor Day weekend, it might take a Dunkirk-like flotilla of small boats to cross the Bay. Not so funny anymore! With the Bay Bridge scheduled to be closed for construction, BART had announced plans to run for 24 hours a day over that weekend (i.e. the Drunken Express). Now the system may soon run 24 fewer hours a day as a looming strike is looking more realistic than ever. BART sp
Mayor Gavin Newsom took a lot of flak for his non-response to the Muni crash on July 18 that sent nearly 50 unfortunate riders to the hospital. Although Newsom has quite a lot of influence in the running of Muni in his role as mayor and appoints the members of the Muni board, he didn't say anything to the press about the crash until July 30. (According to the dailies, he told reporters who asked about his 12 days of silence after the crash, "This is so irrelevant. This is rather ridiculous.")
The union for BART's drivers and station agents blamed the system's financial woes on George W. Bush and greedy management while the system pointed the finger at well-compensated, overtime-hoarding employees. And the riding public can offer a Mercutio-like pox on both their houses while dozing off on the Pittsburg-Bay Point train, because the union-management sniping is no longer being made with the prospect of a disastrous rail strike hanging in the balance. Yesterday around 80 percent of th
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Normally, a story about Gavin Newsom going to Mexico and "leaking" would be pretty vile. And, depending on your feelings about the mayor, both of these developments could be interpreted as very problematic ... but not in that way.In any event, it's Friday -- you made it. But were you paying attention? We'll see about that. 1. The Amalgamated Transit Union Local No. 1555 finally ratified a BART contract on Tuesday. After the vote was in, ATU President Jesse Hunt placed
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