BART Employees: Not as Greedy or Detached from Reality As You Probably Think

by Jean E. Hamilton via Beyond Chron

Fri, Jul 17, 2009 6:59AM

Friday, July 17, 2009 : This week, the majority of BART’s employees will decide whether to accept executives’ offer for a contract covering the next four years of their service to the transit agency, or urge their negotiating team to keep trying. A lot of my fellow employees keep asking me if they should vote for it. And a lot of my friends and neighbors keep asking if I’ll recommend to others that they vote for it, panicked by the potential of a strike.

Since it matters so much to everyone in the Bay Area, I decided to pose the question back to the hundreds of thousands of riders who rely on BART every day to get around and are now paying more thanks to a recent fare hike: What do you think about the deal executives are offering?

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