Union leaders said their members . To report to work on Friday , but warned that the deadline to avert . The strike appeared for Sunday night. They provide 72 hours notice of the official . The strike for Monday morning if the deal does not reach earlier.
60 day cooling off period mandated by the Government , Jerry Brown, expired at 11:59 on Thursday and unions have refused to say whether they will go on strike on Friday morning without having to manage only 15 . minutes before the deadline , but the union emerged from the negotiating table and read a statement.
Announced that they will be in the works for a few days .
Unions said they were . Supported the elected leaders and the legislature is the BART Board participation. In negotiations and General Manager Grace Crunican was scheduled to come to the bargaining table on Friday morning. After her . Assigned earlier negotiations . To serve others.
" The union will continue to negotiate and ( we ) hope to avoid a strike , " Roxanne Sanchez, president of the Service Employees International Union , said: " We want to get this done . 72 hours notice (Monday ) because people expect to know something . Everyone wants to know how this will end . " .
Talks set to start at 10:00 on Friday .
"We are grateful to the Bay Area will not be affected, a few of our workforce and train them to work the next day , while we continue to negotiate BART" spokesman Rick Rice said in a statement.
Antonette Bryant, president of the local transport union , said: "There is no movement. Significant " in negotiations Thursday .
Temporary truce prolong the battle had already been raging for six months and resulted in the closure of one of the two rail strike threatened and abundance. Of anxiety for
Bay Area commuters .
BART does not actually offer a new proposal . Union Thursday. After announcing a one was to come in the day before the rice trade unions said they were " not ready " for new deals .
BART board of directors must approve a new labor contract . Postponed until the evening, a special meeting Friday at 10:00 I have managed to be voted on Thursday, no .
On Thursday morning , the Board of Directors regularly scheduled union blasted the agency, they are time and again, the BART met in session closed before that negotiation Hock , Chief Thomas . will submit a new proposal .
Starting this week, the recommendations of the mediator , the two sides agreed to open the contents of the proposal. Recently , they still struggle with the increase of wages and other issues are still heading into the day, the chief negotiator of the union said the two sides are now about $ 16 million apart - or half the people . work for weeks .
Session negotiation , the day ended on a note Wednesday night when the two unions representing 2,300 blue-collar workers, issued a statement stating that they were close . Management agreement prior to " pull the rug from underneath the " them by returning the latest offers.
BART denied and blamed miscommunication.
Staff is average at BART made $ 76,500 in payments initially years ago , the majority of transportation agencies in any state workers to contribute toward their pension , and pay $ 92. the following month , health care , regardless of how many dependents they have .
Labor has agreed to pay more towards their benefits , but said they were . Deserve . Leverage because they have not been increased . Cost significantly more than four years, even as BART riders and tax revenues have soared to the highest level but says management needs to keep the cost of the employee . Under control while it was trying to buy rail cars and make a billion dollars. Of upgrades to extend the service and 40 years of systems work adequately .
BART proposal , made public late last week for 10.25 percent of the increase in costs and pension fund 4 percent over four years, the two unions have grown .
Equivalent to 18.4 percent of the increase in the cost gap between Deals with the amount of about $ 1,500 in an increase in the cost per year for the average union employee .
Polls have shown . Repeated public disapproves . Of the strike and the latest offers bounty of Management SurveyUSA poll commissioned by KPIX , which was released on Wednesday shows that among the respondents who have been keeping up with . Negotiations , 54 percent said unions should accept the offer of Bart just 16 percent think it should be handled cave twenty percent wanted them . To continue the negotiations.
Negotiations began over six months ago on the opening day of the season Oakland since then, the war of words and conflicts continually frustrated passengers Gulf and led to calls for the state legislature to ban . strike BART.
Unions to strike for 4 ½ days in July and a second strike threatened to turn brown in August, but there is no mention on the outside can step in to stop the strike now.
BART , which carries about 200,000 people each day 's round trip rides from 30 percent growth in October. Even so, compared to the summer shutdown in July , the first time since 1997, slowed to a crawl and expressway bridges and forcing a standing room only on the bus and ferry .
Matthias Gafni staff writer Rick Hurd and Doug Oakley contributed to this report Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705 to follow him twitter.com / RosenbergMerc.
Survival Guide BART STRIKE.
BART: charter bus will run from the East Bay to San Francisco 's BART and garage 5:00 to 8:00 there will be duty free as staging the white zone - loading passengers can use the carpool pickup . casual and drop-off locations .
Ferry : Ferry service from Vallejo , Oakland , Alameda / Main and Alameda / Harbor Bay.
The truck I-580: Home on large rigs of San Leandro Oakland held from 5:00 to 7 on weekdays .
Hours Carpool: 05:00-19:00 I-80 extension to the Carquinez Bridge, Bay Bridge; I-680 north of the I -580 from the Benicia Bridge to I-880 from the Bay Bridge to San Jose ; Plazas Bay , Carquinez, Benicia, San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges along Highway 84 between Fremont and the Dumbarton Bridge, Highway 92 between Hayward and San Mateo bridges.
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