BART unions plan to strike tomorrow after failing to reach an agreement with management. As we have been covering, the negotiations have been ongoing for several months, finally culminating today after a 30-hour bargaining session. While some progress was made with the help of a federal mediator, several key issues remain unresolved. The unions were willing to meet BART on its health care and pension requests, but the two sides could not reach an agreement on pay and work conditions. The unions offered to settle the remaining unresolved issues through binding arbitration, but BART management reportedly rejected that suggestion, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. BART’s final offer included a 12 percent raise over four years, a 4 percent pension contribution by employees, and a 9.5 percent increase in employees’ health-insurance contributions. The president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 said that, “this is not a union strike. This is a management strike brought on by absolute arrogance.” BART management has said that the offer will remain on the table until October 27 and, if approved, the deal would be retroactive to July 1. If a vote were taken after October 27, the contract offer would no longer be retroactive.
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September 15
Unemployment claims rise; a federal court hands victory to government employees union; and employers fire workers over social media posts.
September 14
Workers at Boeing reject the company’s third contract proposal; NLRB Acting General Counsel William Cohen plans to sue New York over the state’s trigger bill; Air Canada flight attendants reject a tentative contract.
September 12
Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to end dynamic pricing for the World Cup; the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement opens a probe into Scale AI’s labor practices; and union members organize immigration defense trainings.
September 11
California rideshare deal advances; Boeing reaches tentative agreement with union; FTC scrutinizes healthcare noncompetes.
September 10
A federal judge denies a motion by the Trump Administration to dismiss a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees against President Trump for his mass layoffs of federal workers; the Supreme Court grants a stay on a federal district court order that originally barred ICE agents from questioning and detaining individuals based on their presence at a particular location, the type of work they do, their race or ethnicity, and their accent while speaking English or Spanish; and a hospital seeks to limit OSHA's ability to cite employers for failing to halt workplace violence without a specific regulation in place.
September 9
Ninth Circuit revives Trader Joe’s lawsuit against employee union; new bill aims to make striking workers eligible for benefits; university lecturer who praised Hitler gets another chance at First Amendment claims.