Great, another BART strike coming

[fan_since79]

They could begin striking at midnight tomorrow.

 

BART employees average $16,000/year in overtime pay and their health insurance costs $92 each month, yet they're not happy.

 

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Tense-BART-negotiations-resume-with-strike-looming-4638163.php

[Taylor]

Typical Dems.

[Mudville]

A BART strike would reduce the A's attendence to under 1,000.

[Tank]

Thanks, Obama!

[Glen]

They could begin striking at midnight tomorrow.

 

BART employees average $16,000/year in overtime pay and their health insurance costs $92 each month, yet they're not happy.

 

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Tense-BART-negotiations-resume-with-strike-looming-4638163.php

 

 

Actually, the article you quoted says $11K in OT, not $16K.  Stick with the facts.  

 

That said...**** these guys.  Seriously.  They're making out better than most of the rest of the country and they're striking because their annual raise won't be enough?  Again...**** these guys.

[fan_since79]

 

Actually, the article you quoted says $11K in OT, not $16K.  Stick with the facts.  

 

That said...**** these guys.  Seriously.  They're making out better than most of the rest of the country and they're striking because their annual raise won't be enough?  Again...**** these guys.

 

When I first posted this, the paragraph below quoted $16,000 in overtime and had the average employee earning $65,000 a year. They've updated the story. In fact, the current article is much longer than the one I linked to in the original post. So I stuck to the facts as they were written when I made this post. The reporter obviously didn't have his facts right when he first wrote the story.

 

 

"BART said that train operators and station agents in the unions average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers also pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance."

 

By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press

Updated 11:06 pm, Sunday, June 30, 2013

[halobob]

 

 

 

When I first posted this, the paragraph below quoted $16,000 in overtime and had the average employee earning $65,000 a year. They've updated the story. In fact, the current article is much longer than the one I linked to in the original post. So I stuck to the facts as they were written when I made this post. The reporter obviously didn't have his facts right when he first wrote the story.

 

 

"BART said that train operators and station agents in the unions average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers also pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance."

 

By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press

Updated 11:06 pm, Sunday, June 30, 2013

 

Seems like pretty good pay to me for what I believe is an unskilled job (I could be wrong about the unskilled, don't really know what jobs at BART entail but I couldn't imagine a station agent needing a formal education).

[katie]

Bart is a government agency. The workers will pay for their raises in taxes.

[St1ck]

D'oh!

[RallyMo]

Not ANOTHER BART strike! This is ridiculous. ANOTHER one?!?!?!?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last one was over a decade and a half ago.

[HaloFan85]

"BART said that train operators and station agents in the unions average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers also pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance."

 

WTF are they complaining about?

 

"The two unions, which represent nearly 2,400 train operators, station agents, mechanics, maintenance workers and professional staff, want a 5 percent raise each year over the next three years."

 

So after those three years, they'll be averaging about $82,000 in just base salary and well over $90K with overtime?  Seriously??

[Tank]

All for operating trains? This is pure entitlement.

[Taylor]

 

By TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press

Updated 11:06 pm, Sunday, June 30, 2013

 

 

[arch stanton]

How dare these selfish bastards exercise their collective bargaining rights at the expense of my convenience!!

[Taylor]

How dare these selfish bastards exercise their collective bargaining rights at the expense of my convenience!!

 

Lol. At the expense of the convenience of an entire major metropolitan area. 

[arch stanton]

Lol. At the expense of the convenience of an entire major metropolitan area. 

So I guess there work is of some value after all?

[Taylor]

So I guess there work is of some value after all?

 

Yes, which is why they're being paid an average of $70+ thousand per year.

[arch stanton]

You say that like it's the lap of luxury so I guess throwing out an average with no supporting details had the effect that BART wanted. Why are you afraid of the collective bargaining process?

[fan_since79]

The strike is in its 4th day, and traffic is a disaster this morning in the Bay area.

 

90 minutes from San Jose to SF on the 101. Similar delays on other routes. This strike may be a long one, too.

[katie]

That sounds like the normal SJ to SF commute

[fan_since79]

Well, the Chronicle site said 36 minutes for an average morning commute. Their numbers might be off, since SJ is 42 miles from the city.

 

The Bay Bridge traffic is bad, though. 

Edited October 21, 2013 by fan_since79

[Taylor]

The Chronicle probably supports unions, which is why they would "report" that.

[fan_since79]

The Chronicle probably supports unions, which is why they would "report" that.

 

Interesting that the vast majority of the comments following their articles on the strike are blasting the unions and the workers. But you're right, the paper itself is very liberal and pro-union.

[Blarg]

I work 40 miles from home. The morning commute during rush hour (which starts at 6 am and goes to 10am) takes 90 minutes at best but usually 2 hours.

[fan_since79]

Whatever the numbers were on the site, they're reporting much heavier traffic than normal. The afternoon commute is going to be lots of fun.