BA BART Workers Set Up Website In Negotiation Fight
BA BART Workers Set Up Website In Negotiation Fight
http://www.runbartrun.org/
We want to keep BART running safely, cleanly, efficiently and on time!
Welcome
With days to go before BART’s union contracts expire, BART employees have launched this website to keep riders and the media up to date about public events and negotiations updates related to a possible strike action.
BART Workers’ Legislative Briefing
at Noon
Posted: Monday, 29 June 2009 6AM
BART Workers are holding a legislative briefing with elected officials at the CA State Building in Oakland.
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Breaking News Update
BART TRAINS KEEP RUNNING THROUGH JULY 9 MIDNIGHT
BART Workers and Management Agree to Extend Labor Contract
Posted: Sunday, 28 June 2009 6AM
With three days before BART’s union contracts expire, BART Management has agreed to extend labor contracts with employees of SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555.
Read full press release: BART TRAINS KEEP RUNNING THROUGH JULY 9 MIDNIGHT
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BART Workers DO Not Want To Strike
Posted: Thursday, 25 June 2009 6AM
Workers hope for an extension and if not granted by management they will ask the Governor to intervene.
We, BART’s employees, are committed to exploring all other options and to strike only as a last resort if options do not open up.
BART management refuses to consider extending the current contract and has asked Gov. Schwarzenegger NOT to grant the unions a cooling-off period if an agreement is not reached in time.
More time is likely necessary to work out a new contract. Meanwhile, BART executives continue to ask only riders and employees to suffer the consequences of their financial mismanagement.
We are committed to keeping BART running safely, cleanly and efficiently.
Believe us — we want BART to continue its service as much as you do. But management won’t take responsibility for its budget abuse costing riders millions of dollars.
Run BART RUN!
1. BART Executives Reject Obama’s stimulus money for operations
The New York Times reports a majority of transit agencies in the country are choosing to use federal stimulus money to help with reducing fare hikes and service cuts—except BART. BART Executives have rejected stimulus money for operations. Instead they are choosing to raise fares and cut service.
Check out the NYT coverage.
2. BART wants to grow at any costs—even when wrestling with $250 million budget deficit.
BART Executives have announced plans to spend $7 billion on new trains and $500 million on the Oakland Airport Connector when far cheaper options are available. Now Don Perata, former State Senate President Pro Tem, is siding with other elected officials who are re-thinking the cost-benefit of the Oakland Airport Connector.
“This fails any
cost-benefit on its face.” --Don Perata
Check out the letter Don Perata sent to Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Chairman
3. BART Executives stop Lt. Governor Garamendi from spending a day as a BART Worker
In 2007, Barrack Obama walked a day in the shoes of Pauline Beck, an Oakland home health care worker, where he was able to learn about people who care for the elderly and people with disabilities. (Watch Video of Beck and Obama)
On June 18, 2009, Lt. Governor Garamendi was going to do the same thing, but this time he would walk a day as a hard-working BART employee. While experiencing a day as a worker, the Lt. Governor was also going to provide his analysis of state budget cuts affecting Bay area residents.
Unfortunately, the Lt. Governor was denied access to BART employees at their job site by BART administration. Past visitors at BART job sites include: Boy Scouts, busloads of tourists, and BART administration-approved journalists.
BART BUDGET WASTE
Our friends at BARTBudgetWaste.org have BART Executive salaries and spending covered. They’ve done their research and discovered handful of executive salaries toppling over 3.4 million and $500,000 in credit card spending. Much more atwww.BARTbudgetwaste.org.
Meet the REAL BART WORKER
Our other friends at realBARTworkers.org have a plethora of information detailing BART management’s bad ideas, lies of the week and a closer look at the folks that contribute to your destination on the BART system. If you ride BART, this is a must see:www.realBARTworkers.org
This web site is brought to by the BART workers of SEIU 1021.