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BART workers defend contract
Published Jul 15, 2005 10:35 PM
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit workers and representatives of all the local labor
councils rallied inside the BART administrative office building June 28 to
support their representatives in intense contract negotiations with BART
management. This unity brought a tentative agreement in the early morning of
July 6—when the five unions involved, including Amalgamated Transport
Local 1555 and Service Employees Local 790, were set to strike. BART bosses met
most of the unions’ pension, health-care, work-rules and wage demands,
thus avoiding the certain nightmare of some 2,700 strikers shutting down the
transit service used daily by thousands of Bay Area
workers.
—Story and photos by J. Marquardt
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