Part 2 of my BART rant: the union has been threatening a strike for almost four months. Up until today, BART management was continuing to propose its latest four-year offer. That includes a total 12 percent pay increase on top of union workers average gross pay of $76,500 -- the highest among California transit agencies -- changing pension contributions from zero to 4 percent, and bumping up monthly health care payments from $92 to $144. Unions had agreed to the pension and health care offers but wanted a 15.9 percent increase in pay, BART said. The other big remaining issue is BARTs refusal to let a neutral arbitrator give the final ruling on various perks that workers want to keep but which management says are inefficient. Among the work rules BART wants to change: Currently, union workers can call in sick, work four days and get paid overtime on the fifth day; employees can leave projects in the middle of a job to go work on something else; and employees can receive paper paycheck stubs instead of electronic notices. Seriously? Workers want to earn overtime pay even though they may not have worked a full work week? Charles Marin is right: dump the union workers and replace them with people who appreciate having super good salaries and will work to earn their income. No pity at all for you.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:26:10 +0000
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