BART unions in SF Bay Area give 72-hour notice of second strike
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
With the clock ticking on a Sunday night strike deadline for BART, transit system officials made a last-ditch plea Thursday for unions to delay any walkout plans.
... But union leaders issued a courtesy 72-hour notice Thursday night that they could walk off the job Monday when their 30 day contract extension ends if progress is not made at the negotiating table. Union officials said that doesn't mean a strike is inevitable and that negotiations will continue.
A walk-out would lead 400,000 BART riders scrambling for another way to get to work. BART already has reserved 96 private buses to provide very limited service from East Bay BART stations to and from San Francisco if some 2,400 union workers walk off the job. Running that service will cost the transit agency about $114,000 a day.
... Hundreds of union members, many wearing T-shifts of their locals and carrying signs calling for a new BART contract, filled the lawn at Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall. Speaker after speaker, many from unions outside of BART, pledged solidarity to the transit workers in their search for a new contract.
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