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After 30 hours of negotiations. The Union Members were open board with wages and pensions but not agree to the work rules. There is only one way to get them back on the job. If they immediately enter or agree to enter into arbitration on the remaining language issues we broke off at the end, we would be willing to take that package back to a vote to our membership, stop the strike, and go back to work. These are work rules essential to maintaining the future efficiency and effectiveness of the a...

Abcnews. Com. Good night, america. Announcer every day more americans choose abc news, americas number one news source. And that breaking news is bart. Lets than an ahour away from a strike and negotiations completely broken down. Trains l certain the trains will not be running for tomorrow morning commute. Good evening. Im in for dan. Im carolyn. We have Team Coverage for you on the bart striking beginning with john live at caltrans if oakland where the talk break off late today. John . Reporte...

Safe and come home safe to be with their families. I would like to come back out here with Police Officers escorting a man from the scene here. There are four Police Officers and a man. He calm up and said he was trying to get to work and was upset at the bart protesters. The striking workers. He picked up a cone and threw it so they are taking him into custody. You can see the workers of still striking. They are adamant about being out here and will not let one person take away from the picketi...

Anthony joins us live from oakland. They have eight hours to respond . Reporter that is it, larry. That is for bay area commuters as well. This is a stunning announcement. The a lot of half hour, it appears by the length of the negotiations, 30 hours since yesterday, that they were somehow close to a deal. But Roxanne Sanchez walked out of this building and made this announcement that they were going to go on strike if the management did not back down from hard line rules. As of midnight tonight...

Local spent the night packing up tent and bottle of water getting ready for what could be a long hall. Nearly 30 straight hours of talk did not produce an agreement but a lot of sniping. Union members say they were basically on board with wages and pension but that bart pulled a fast one at the last minute. We were this close and yet at the last minute they threw in a management strike clause to take away our rights as workers. Everything else was done. Reporter bart general manager grace says t...

And that breaking news is bart. Lets than an ahour away from a strike and negotiations completely broken down. Certain the trains will not be running for tomorrow morning commute. Good evening. Im in for dan. Im carolyn. We have Team Coverage for you on the bart striking beginning with john live at caltrans if oakland where the talk break off late today. John . Reporter federal mediator gave open invitation to both sides to return to the building to begin negotiations restarted but tonight that ...

Their kids off at school as wells. Despite the headaches, im jon kelley. Im marla tellez. Lets go live to kristy who is out there with more. Reporter good morning. When i got to the bart station at 2 00 a. M. , the workers were already on the picket line. This station here is closed because of the strike. Heres whats happening here as the director here is speaking to the media right now. Im going to step aside so you can listen in to what hes saying. We agreed to lower our request for a wage inc...

Rules. [ screaming in the background ] unions decided to if they wanted to take the money that was on the table, but not the work rules that were on the table. The thing that was amazing is they put these issues on the table that for six months we were never told these were primary issues. We reach a a an economic framework, we move to their direction on pension, we move to their direction on healthcare, we lowered our wage proposal, and then all of a sudden these issues that werent discussed at...

The moment weve feared is here. Bart workers are on strike this morning. The announcement was made yesterday evening. We have Team Coverage all morning providing you with the latest drive times and the best ways for you to get a News Conference with se iu is about to get underway. That is one of barts unions. They are going to talk about what lead up to the strike and why a deal has not yet been reached. Standing by at the lake merritt bart station is kron 4s mike pelton. They put these issues o...

Entire bart system. Now, the situation is interesting because we still havent heard from the mediator and we still havent heard from bart. I suspect what it is is bart is going to let the union have their say to come down what they have to say. But at this point in time josie is still in there. We could tell this thing was going bad earlier. Here were what a couple of people had to say just a little bit earlier in the day. Not going to go down for lack of effort. Everybody has done everything th...