Three strikes and you're out, BART [View all]

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-board-to-meet-Friday-about-contract-glitch-4984274.php

BART directors will meet in a special closed-door session Friday to discuss how to handle a clause the transit agency's management says was inadvertently included in the tentative contract with its labor unions.

The tentative agreement, reached Oct. 21, ended a four-day strike by BART's two largest unions - the second strike in four months. The unions, Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, have overwhelmingly ratified the agreement....

Antonette Bryant, president of the ATU local, said in a statement that she expects the board to approve the contract.

"We negotiated in good faith for six months," she said. "BART management is now attempting to go back on agreements it made in July and August and that were part of the final deal. This is unconscionable."