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BART workers are going on strike Friday morning. If you must come into or move around San Francisco, instead of working at home in your sweatpants, here are your commuting options during the strike.
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BART workers are planning to strike Friday morning, local media reports, so your commute might not be pretty. After more than a days’ worth of time spent at the bargaining table, BART and its two largest unions were left in disagreement on health care and pension issues.
From SFGate,
“Roxanne Sanchez, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, said Thursday afternoon that they met BART on its health care and pension requests, but the two sides still could not come to an agreement on pay and work conditions…While the unions offered to settle the remaining unresolved issues through binding arbitration, BART management reportedly rejected that suggestion.”
BART General Manager Grace Crunican told SFGate that there are certain rights that management needed to retain. BART’s final offer included a 12 percent raise over four years. Employees would be paying a 4 percent pension contribution and a 9.5 percent increase in their health-insurance contribution.
Of course, this is not what we wanted to report, but there you go. Got reports of your BART-alternative commute? Tweet it to us at @bartdiaries.
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As far as we know, there is only one official “No Pants” day on BART, but hey, who are we to argue with this passenger here? Via @lisabach, who said:
Miley?!? So awkward to forget one’s pants on #sfbart
Maybe it’s time for pants to write an open letter to Miley?
BART trains are running, so do your thing and enjoy more of what you’d be missing had there been a strike (besides a hella fast and relatively cheap way to get around a major metropolitan area, that is):
Via BART rider and Muni Diaries contributor Amy, when asked whether these two were together: Nope, they just “both had same ugly backpack.”
I mean, what are the chances?
This is the kind of stuff we’d be missing if there’s a BART strike tomorrow. Let’s hope there’s not a BART strike tomorrow, eh?
Via BART rider Julia: “Federal law requires these seats be made available to bland office art.” #BART
KTVU tweets that the unions have granted one more day of talks with BART management to avert a strike.
We’ll update here if more news breaks.