San Francisco Transit, Union Leaders Reach Deal

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO December 21, 2013 (AP)
By GREG MOORE Associated Press

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit officials and labor union leaders announced a new deal early Saturday, saying the final issue in their ongoing dispute has been resolved.

The transit system and its two largest unions have been involved in months-long negotiations that stalled recently over paid medical leave time for employees.

BART officials and labor leaders had approved a deal in October after six months of negotiations and two strikes that caused problems for hundreds of thousands of people who ride the nation's fifth-largest commuter rail system.

That deal fell apart last month when BART officials said the provision giving workers six weeks of paid annual leave to care for sick family members had been mistakenly included in the contract.

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[bayareaboy]

1. Hmm, so maybe BART management now will read the contract before signing it.

I don't think so, though.

This whole thing is very typical of the BART honchos.

[mulsh]

4. Maybe someone read them the Federal FMLA and the CA FMLA and paid special

attention to the fact that all workers are covered by both FMLA programs and that the are applied consecutively, not concurrently. Even union workers and members of management teams are covered by both of these laws.

[Teamster Jeff]

2. Good. Now SF yuppies can stfu about being late for work because of a strike

[seattledo]

3. You assume they don't ride private transit

Seriously, their kind stooping to use BART?

[CreekDog]

6. Yes, many high paid professionals ride BART

The idea that the better paid don't ride it is a myth.

[alp227]

5. SF Chron article

BART and unions reach contract deal