Who has BART hired for contract negotiations to fight ATU 1555 and SEIU 1021?

Who has BART hired for contract negotiations?

On April 11, 2013 BART authorized an additional $300,000 (above the $99,000 the GM previously approved on October 3, 2012 for $350/hr plus travel, accommodations and other expenses) to hire Veolia Transit and their VP of Labor Relations, Thomas P. Hock, as the Chief Negotiator for ATU & SEIU contract negotiations on top of other consultants and their Labor Relations Department.
Examples of discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims
Ex-­‐city bus firm settles racial suit Former PTM workers to share $450,000
May 18, 2007 12:09 AM
Six employees of a company that once managed public buses in Colorado Springs will split a $450,000 settlement announced Thursday in a case alleging harassment from other workers.
The targeted workers said they feared for their safety at the Colorado Springs operation because others routinely used slurs about race and national origin. The other workers talked about shooting, gassing or killing blacks, Hispanics and Asians, according to court documents.
One employee reportedly said of blacks: “If I had my way I’d gas them like Hitler did the Jews.”
Managers of Professional Transit Management did nothing to stop the harassment and sometimes participated in it, according to a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Ohio-­‐based PTM admitted no wrongdoing, but it agreed to pay the former workers a settlement and put employees through training about racial harassment.
PTM President Tom Hock declined to discuss the settlement Thursday, saying he hadn’t seen the document. Read more: http://www.gazette.com/news/transit-­‐22500-­‐employees-­‐settlement.html#ixzz2QPusrAaM