ATU and BART Return To Bargaining Table Today

August 15, 2009 A Message from the President
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Today we resumed negotiations with BART management in an effort to avert any work stoppage.
We’ve worked hard for four months to reach agreement on a contract that is fair to workers and preserves the highest level of safety and service for our riders, and we hope to continue to do so.
As it currently stands, BART’s [...]

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BART Unions’ Proposal

August 9, 2009 Media Matters
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Meet ATU: Henry Cortez, BART Foreworker

August 7, 2009 Meet ATU
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Henry Cortez has been working for BART so long that when he went through training he got to walk through the transbay tube. “They were still putting the cover boards over the third rail,” he recalled about his first days at the agency in 1973. “They told us that this was one of the safest [...]

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Time to Move Forward

August 4, 2009 A Message from the President
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After four months of extraordinarily difficult negotiations, ATU 1555 and other BART unions have reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with BART executives. There are still some details yet to be worked out. Once they are, we will brief our members about those details and schedule a ratification vote during the coming week.
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BART unions pitch cost-cutting plan

July 20, 2009 Uncategorized

By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times
OAKLAND — Union leaders took their case to the BART board Thursday, urging directors to back a contract proposal that would cut the steep cost of providing lifetime health coverage to retired workers.
The proposal — received skeptically by a BART spokesman — was offered up as an alternative to a [...]

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