I have been on Twitter since September 18 2011. Since then I’ve seen FOUR BART strikes in that time.
This is just ludicrous now. Its time for Jerry Brown to just fire them all.
Via NY Times:
Employees of the Bay Area’s main commuter railroad walked off the job at midnight on Thursday, after labor talks broke down and federal mediators said there was nothing more they could do to bring the sides together.
The strike, called by the two largest unions representing Bay Area Rapid Transit system workers, will force hundreds of thousands of people to find alternate transportation for their Friday commute.
For the last week — since a 60-day cooling off period ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown ended on Oct. 10 — negotiators had been working long hours trying to resolve their differences. Strike deadlines were set by the union, then postponed, then set again. Anxious commuters — the railroad carries 400,000 passengers each day — stayed up late to find out whether trains would be running the next day.