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Yesterday talks broke down after 30 hours of negotiations. Union members say they were on board with wages and pensions but could not agree on the work rules put in by management. We were this close and yet at the last minute, they through in a Management Rights clause that takes away our rights as workers. Everything else was done. These are work rules that were essential to maintaining the future efficiency and effectiveness of the agency. What happened is the union decided that they wanted to at that time montake the money butt the work rules. Reporter b. A. R. T. Management says the work r...

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 agency. The unions decided they wanted to take the money on the table but not the work rules. Bart ma...

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 increase. Progress is being mad and we are substantially close to reaching an agreement, but in the las...

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 on the table but for six months river never told that these were primary issues we reach an Economic ...

Reporter i fel for that guyt home to antioch. As far as we can see this intersection is normally of bad intersection chaunceys given day but today, in really bad down here San Francisco kron4 newsom jeff bush. Reporter i think that it is getting worse in the east bay. Across the lower deck of the bay bridge traffic is starting to really jammed up. Now caltran absolutely released numbers with 30 increase in traffic and 50 jump along the east shore freeways. Eastbound 80 of the hoffmann split and getting on the highway for is not too bad. Traffic starting to fill up as to approach the bay bridge...