Wednesday restoration BART and its amazing railway workers after negotiations between the two sides have expressed a long overnight session at the end of a few hours ago has been progress.
Josie Mooney with the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, the chief negotiator, said she hoped the latest round of talks is a three-day strike has slowed the entire San Francisco Bay Area commuters.
Nigeria after the optimism lasted nearly nine hours overnight negotiating session.
"We have made some progress, we have worked very hard," Mooney said. "She declined to comment further, saying that the mediator has asked the parties not to speak to the media.
Country's fifth largest rail system labor dispute involving the main issues include: wages, pensions, health care and security.
BART spokesman Rick Rice said that in the long meeting was a good sign.
"This is a lot better than not talking," he said.
However, the strike will continue in the region, causing stress and frustration. Passengers line up on Wednesday morning the transit agency's charter bus in five different locations, patiently waiting for the ferry to San Francisco, and San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, greatly reducing early to endure the heavy rush.
"I hope this is the last day," Teresa Harding, aged 52, Oakland, benefits consultants say, before she boarded the ferry to San Francisco direction. "Increasingly difficult to sympathize with the rights of any party."
BART each weekday more than 400,000 passengers. Monday morning began a strike after negotiations broke off. Tuesday to resume negotiations mounting political pressure and public confession.
The governor's office sent two country's top media - Public Employment Relations Board and the National Mediation and Conciliation Service chief chair - for further talks.
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Letter from the State Controller, the Deputy Governor and the Commissioner of Insurance, said the strike has caused "extensive personal difficulties and severe economic dislocation," and pointed out that they were disappointed "about the production of proposals and counter-proposals in the coming days deficiency leads to strike." .
Said BART train operators and station agents union an average of about $ 71,000 base salary of $ 11,000 per year to work overtime. Workers' health insurance also pay a fixed monthly fee of $ 92.
Commuter Hillary Hartman, 26, said sympathy for union demands more money, she had a difficult period.
"They are almost twice as much as I do," Hartman said, waiting for Tuesday's bus ride from San Francisco to her work at Berkeley. "I'm a non-profit work, if I did not do my job, I was fired, I really like, go do your job, so I can do my job."
Despite such feelings, no backlash may trade unions, at the University of California at Berkeley Labor Research and Education Center, labor policy specialist Steven Pitts said.
Even in the country only about 11% of workers are union members, California is more serious trade union organization in the country, one of the countries, he said, San Francisco and Los Angeles as a union stronghold.
"In this case, BART unions feel that they have some leverage, due to lack of alternatives like public transportation in the region, rapid transit trains can not run, no workers," Pitts said. "
Transit through the farthest reaches of the densely populated eastern suburb of San Francisco across the bay of San Francisco International Airport. With the four counties of 44 stations and 104 kilometers of lines, train handling more than 40% of the passengers from the East Bay to San Francisco, regional transportation officials said.
To help passengers, carpool lanes and value-added ferries, buses, MRT extension of time.
Union - represents nearly 2,400 train operators, station personnel, technicians, maintenance personnel and professional staff - expect a 5 percent increase each year over the next three years.
Bart said, it provides an 8% pay increase, as well as in the next four years to reduce its initial require employees contributory pension and medical benefits.
 



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