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The sound of discovery shines out of every track on “\u003ca href=\"http://ridgewayrecords.net/opaluna-2/\">Opaluna\u003c/a>” (Ridgeway Records), the eponymous new album by two 20-something musicians, the Colombian-born vocalist \u003ca href=\"http://www.susanapineda.com/opaluna\">Susana Pineda\u003c/a> and Bay Area guitarist Luis Salcedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283269973\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pineda hails from Medellin and decided to study in the U.S. with the encouragement of her mentor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGm-6-ewoH0\">Claudia Gomez\u003c/a>, who was a major force in the Bay Area Latin music scene in the 1980s and '90s before moving back to Colombia. 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The European Space Agency and NASA \u003ca href=\"http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2013/11/Bay_Area\" target=\"_blank\">released the image\u003c/a> above earlier this week (it was actually shot by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station nearly a year ago). The big, high-res version of the photo is here: \u003ca href=\"http://spaceinimages.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2013/11/bay_area/13430116-1-eng-GB/Bay_Area.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area at night\u003c/a>. And if you're curious how the image relates to a map of the region, a Reddit user created a nice \u003ca href=\"http://www.layer5.us/pics/fb/night_overlay.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">night overlay\u003c/a> using Google Maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway: Just look at us and the way we beam our presence into space. I look for my home place in a well-known university town in the East Bay. I can't see my house or block, of course, but I can trace the main streets, and I swear the nearby BART station stands out in the night view from the more dimly lit surrounding neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we're contemplating our Bay Area beauty shot, here's another picture to consider, an image that puts our presence into a different context: \u003ca href=\"http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=4868\" target=\"_blank\">a now-famous image\u003c/a> from NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, a picture released last summer. In taking a mosaic of the planet and its rings as seen from its shadowed side, the spacecraft's cameras also captured a view of the Earth — from a distance of 900 million miles (roughly 10 times the distance from the Earth to the sun). Here we are, the bright blue dot at the lower right of the frame (and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ciclops.org/view_media/38487/One-Special-Day-in-the-Life-of-Planet-Earth\" target=\"_blank\">here's a bonus picture\u003c/a>: the same image enhanced to show the moon).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 559px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/03/california-curses-/earthsaturn/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119865\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/earthsaturn-559x640.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Saturn and its rings with a distant Earth--the bright blue dot at lower right--in the background. (NASA/ESA)\" width=\"559\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Saturn and its rings with a distant Earth--the bright blue dot at lower right--in the background. (NASA/ESA)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Porco\u003c/a>, the astrophysicist working as the lead imaging scientist on the Cassini mission, was on the PBS \"NewsHour\" last week and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec13/cassini_11-29.html\" target=\"_blank\">talked about\u003c/a> the picture:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Host Judy Woodruff: \u003c/strong>The most remarkable image to me is, of course, the one where you see Saturn in the corner and you see the rings, and then you see in the distance this tiny blue dot, which is Earth. Tell us about that image and the meaning of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carolyn Porco: \u003c/strong>Well, that image has a long and beautiful history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it goes back all the way to the Voyager mission, when Carl Sagan and I and others planned and executed an image taken from beyond the orbit of Neptune, looking back at the Earth, and it's become known since then as the \"Pale Blue Dot\" image, as describe by Carl Sagan so eloquently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that image, even though it's not much to look at, in the hands of Carl Sagan became a kind of romantic allegory of the human condition, showing the Earth alone in the vastness of space and small and fragile, and with the immediate recognition that everybody we have ever known, everyone who has ever been alive in the history of our planet lived on that dot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since I began my tenure as the leader on the imaging team for the Cassini mission, I have wanted to do that picture over again, only make it better. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/bay-area-rain-weather-forecast/norain111213/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117875\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/norain111213-e1384274998576.jpg\" alt=\"Over the Bay Area this morning: Nice clouds, but barely any rain. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over the Bay Area this morning: nice clouds, but barely any rain. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I saw some evidence of precipitation, right here in the Bay Area, this morning about 6:30. The pavement outside my home in Berkeley was dappled by raindrops. But by 7 a.m., that moisture had evaporated and everything was dry again. My eyeball view of the weather — rain? what rain? — seems to be confirmed by weather reports, too. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's hourly report on regional rainfall\u003c/a> shows next to nothing in the way of precipitation: one-hundredth of an inch in Concord is the big dousing of the morning so far. The airports in Oakland and San Francisco have reported a trace of rain — the same as I saw in Berkeley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)\u003c/a>, an unofficial reporting system of volunteer weather observers, shows a handful of reports of .01 and .02 around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, 2013 moves on, the driest calendar year so far for San Francisco (and probably the rest of the region) since 1849, the year weather record-keeping started in the city. Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-on-course-for-driest-year-on-record-4971192.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Fimrite sums up\u003c/a> where we are as of this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>No rain at all fell in San Francisco in October and only 3.95 inches has fallen since Jan. 1, the smallest amount of precipitation to date since record keeping began 164 years ago, according to the National Weather Service....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"It's absolutely dry,\" said Bob Benjamin, a National Weather Service forecaster. \"We just went through October where there was no measurable precipitation in downtown San Francisco. That's only happened seven times since records started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous record dry year was in 1976, when 5.57 inches of rain fell in San Francisco over the 311 days between Jan. 1 and Nov. 7. Meteorologists use San Francisco as a benchmark because it has the longest consecutive rainfall record in the state, going back to 1849-50.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's bone-dry conditions have some water managers preparing to resort to \"cloud-seeding\" in order to sprout more precipitation. KQED's Mina Kim spoke on Tuesday with Jeffrey Tilley, director of weather modification at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119868729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all is lost for the coming rain year. We're at the very beginning of the rainy season, and as forecaster and local precipitation historian Jan Null points out, two of San Francisco's wettest winters followed completely dry Octobers.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But for now, there's worse to come. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's Bay Area office in Monterey warns\u003c/a> in its current forecast discussion that today's non-rain event is likely to be followed by warm, dry, windy conditions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>MAIN FORECAST CONCERN FOR THE WEEK NOW APPEARS TO BE FIRE WEATHER\u003cbr>\nAS A MODERATE NORTHERLY SURFACE GRADIENT WILL COINCIDE WITH A\u003cbr>\nNORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT PLUS A SHORTWAVE TROF ROTATING\u003cbr>\nTHROUGH SOME TIME ON FRIDAY. NAM 850 MB SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO\u003cbr>\nEXCEED 40 KT, SO WE COULD EASILY BE LOOKING AT LOCALLY GUSTY\u003cbr>\nWINDS, VERY LOW HUMIDITY VALUES, AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS WHICH\u003cbr>\nWOULD ALL COMBINE TO PRODUCE ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. WE\u003cbr>\nCOULD EASILY BE LOOKING AT WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH OVER THE\u003cbr>\nNORTH AND EAST BAY HILLS WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. WOULD NOT\u003cbr>\nBE SURPRISED IF A FIRE WEATHER WATCH AND THEN RED FLAG WARNING IS\u003cbr>\nISSUED FOR THE EVENT AS IT GETS CLOSER. THE WINDS MAY CONTINUE INTO AT\u003cbr>\nLEAST PART OF SATURDAY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEXT WEEK IS ALSO SHAPING UP TO BE DRY AS THE RIDGE OUT OVER THE\u003cbr>\nPACIFIC IS EXPECTED TO EFFECTIVELY BLOCK ANY SYSTEMS FROM NEARING\u003cbr>\nOUR COAST. 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My eyeball view of the weather — rain? what rain? — seems to be confirmed by weather reports, too. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's hourly report on regional rainfall\u003c/a> shows next to nothing in the way of precipitation: one-hundredth of an inch in Concord is the big dousing of the morning so far. The airports in Oakland and San Francisco have reported a trace of rain — the same as I saw in Berkeley. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=CA\" target=\"_blank\">Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)\u003c/a>, an unofficial reporting system of volunteer weather observers, shows a handful of reports of .01 and .02 around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, 2013 moves on, the driest calendar year so far for San Francisco (and probably the rest of the region) since 1849, the year weather record-keeping started in the city. Here's how the San Francisco Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-on-course-for-driest-year-on-record-4971192.php\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Fimrite sums up\u003c/a> where we are as of this week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>No rain at all fell in San Francisco in October and only 3.95 inches has fallen since Jan. 1, the smallest amount of precipitation to date since record keeping began 164 years ago, according to the National Weather Service....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... \"It's absolutely dry,\" said Bob Benjamin, a National Weather Service forecaster. \"We just went through October where there was no measurable precipitation in downtown San Francisco. That's only happened seven times since records started.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous record dry year was in 1976, when 5.57 inches of rain fell in San Francisco over the 311 days between Jan. 1 and Nov. 7. Meteorologists use San Francisco as a benchmark because it has the longest consecutive rainfall record in the state, going back to 1849-50.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's bone-dry conditions have some water managers preparing to resort to \"cloud-seeding\" in order to sprout more precipitation. KQED's Mina Kim spoke on Tuesday with Jeffrey Tilley, director of weather modification at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119868729\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all is lost for the coming rain year. We're at the very beginning of the rainy season, and as forecaster and local precipitation historian Jan Null points out, two of San Francisco's wettest winters followed completely dry Octobers.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But for now, there's worse to come. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service's Bay Area office in Monterey warns\u003c/a> in its current forecast discussion that today's non-rain event is likely to be followed by warm, dry, windy conditions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>MAIN FORECAST CONCERN FOR THE WEEK NOW APPEARS TO BE FIRE WEATHER\u003cbr>\nAS A MODERATE NORTHERLY SURFACE GRADIENT WILL COINCIDE WITH A\u003cbr>\nNORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT PLUS A SHORTWAVE TROF ROTATING\u003cbr>\nTHROUGH SOME TIME ON FRIDAY. 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"disqusTitle": "BART Trains Running While Talks Continue; New Deadline on Sunday",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/07/bart-strike-deadline-update-new-poll-numbers-contract-gap-narrows/rs5460_172490917-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114039\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-114039\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS5460_172490917-scr-e1381171181363.jpg\" alt=\"Pickets during July's BART four-day BART strike. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pickets during July's four-day BART strike. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The latest: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/114618/BART-strike-update-sunday-deadline\">BART Strike Saturday Update: Talks Resume After Delay\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:55 p.m.\u003c/strong> BART and its two biggest labor unions have just announced that talks are breaking up for the night and will continue tomorrow at 10 a.m. There will be no strike tonight. But the unions issued a 72-hour notice of a strike, meaning a walkout could begin as early as midnight Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cstrong>Key developments\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>BART running normal service Friday and over the weekend.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART, unions will resume talks at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Unions says BART General Manager Grace Crunican expected to join negotiations along with two BART directors and other elected officials.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Unions gave 72-hour notice that they could go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pay, health benefits appear to be major obstacles to agreement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The announcement means BART will run regular service Friday and over the weekend while negotiators try to settle a contract dispute that has persisted despite more than six months of negotiations. Despite announcing tentative progress on worker pension payments last week, the two sides are apparently still far apart on pay and health-care benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roxanne Sanchez, president of SEIU Local 1021, said the unions were were encouraged that two members of the BART board of directors — who were not named — and other \"Bay Area legislative leaders\" had joined the talks. Sanchez also said that she expected BART General Manager Grace Crunican would join the talks Friday and remain involved until an agreement is reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that these developments can only help bring a resolution to these long, drawn-out negotiations, and for this reason we will continue bargaining throughout the weekend,\" Sanchez said. She also expressed hope that there's still time for a settlement before the 12:01 a.m. Monday strike deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the board getting involved and the legislative leaders assisting and the general manager willing to sit down at the bargaining table that the unions are continuing to negotiate and hope to avoid a strike,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said she was disappointed that the intensive talks of the last few days have not led to a new contract. \"On behalf of ATU, I am bitterly disappointed that did not take place,\" Bryant said. \"Everything is in place, like I said earlier today, to get that agreement done. The fact of the matter is, the district did not come to the table to take care of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the unions want Crunican directly involved in the negotiations because \"the other people at the table do not have the authority to get the deal done. We want her at the table because she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the KRON4 video featuring the late-night statements from Sanchez and BART chief negotiator Thomas Hock:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/lcc4HVpDJoo?list=PLFMWhwFgm0Cc6OBglknEdKg24hJWtEHBc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:45 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The BART talks continue in Oakland, with a couple of interesting wrinkles to report. First, despite BART saying more than six hours ago that it was about to present a new offer to the unions, that offer has not yet been presented. Reporter Alex Emslie has been staking out the talks all evening for KQED, and said BART spokesman Jim Allison acknowledged the agency hadn't presented the offer after the earlier announcement. He suggested it was because state and federal mediators control the negotiation agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What everyone wants to know is will the trains be running in the morning. We still don't have a certain answer on that with just half an hour to go before Gov. Jerry Brown's 60-day cooling-off periood, called in August to give BART and the unions time to sort all this out, expires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, KRON4 reports that a court in San Francisco has freed \u003ca href=\"http://news.kron4.com/news/naked-bart-acrobat-freed/\" target=\"_blank\">the infamous naked 16th Street BART gymnast\u003c/a>. Yeiner Perez was arrested at the station in May after a frightening escapade during which he physically accosted several passengers, threatened others, and did an extended impromptu acrobatic routine. Unions publicized a video of the incident (\u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/pm6udzd6\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>) to highlight their contention that BART management has not paid enough attention to their safety concerns in contract talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Mercury News reporter Mike Rosenberg reports that \"as of 5 p.m., negotiations were continuing, but no deal had been reached and the unions had not announced whether they would strike.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART negotiators were preparing to submit a new offer Thursday afternoon in hopes of averting a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Rosenberg tweeted\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This graph shows how unions' support in polls, already low a week ago, has gotten even lower \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/kEF5JAwyvf\">http://t.co/kEF5JAwyvf\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RosenbergMerc/statuses/388449470477647872\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The graph is from a new poll by \u003ca href=\"http://www.surveyusa.com/\">SurveyUSA\u003c/a>. It shows that support for the unions has dropped: Fifty-four percent of respondents say that the unions should accept BART management's offer, up from 40 percent on Oct. 4. Sixteen percent say BART should accept the unions' offer, down from 24 percent on Oct. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 2:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> With less than 12 hours until another BART strike becomes possible, union representatives appeared at this morning's open BART board meeting in Oakland and repeated charges that the agency has backed away from the terms of a tentative agreement. Union comments also suggest that BART's pay offer — a 10 percent increase over four years, at the same time workers make new pension contributions and increase what they pay for medical benefits — is still a huge stumbling block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Emslie, reporting for KQED from the meeting, says union members called on the board to send General Manager Grace Crunican into the talks as time has grown too short to conduct the back-and-forth through state and federal mediators. But BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said Crunican would enter the talks only when negotiators were \"inches away\" from an agreement, and that hasn't happened yet. The two sides resumed negotiations at Caltrans District 4 headquarters in Oakland at 1:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART board unanimously approved a plan to spend up to $400,000 a day on replacement bus service if workers go out on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the meeting comments live-tweeted by reporters at this morning's session:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\"Please fix this train wreck of a negotiation\" BART worker to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BART&src=hash\">#BART\u003c/a> Board \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CBSSF\">@CBSSF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Anne Makovec (@AnneMakovec) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnneMakovec/statuses/388337743375253504\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\"Framework for settlement all of a sudden dismantled\" - union leader says at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BART&src=hash\">#BART\u003c/a> meeting \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTtalks&src=hash\">#BARTtalks\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Matthias Gafni (@mgafni) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mgafni/statuses/388342376655122432\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/seiu1021\">@seiu1021\u003c/a> told \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bart&src=hash\">#Bart\u003c/a> board- management's 10% wage increase offer is actually .67% decrease w/medical and retirement benefit cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Matt Keller (@MattKellerABC7) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MattKellerABC7/statuses/388342354190426113\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BART&src=hash\">#BART\u003c/a> unions want board to order GM Grace Crunican to bargaining table. \"There's only 15 hours left.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Michael Cabanatuan (@ctuan) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ctuan/statuses/388341576272838656\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BART&src=hash\">#BART\u003c/a> unions haven't issued any strike notice. But it sounds like they're issuing one now--15 hrs. Unofficial, but... \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGate\">@sfgate\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bartstrike&src=hash\">#bartstrike\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Michael Cabanatuan (@ctuan) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ctuan/statuses/388343240211968000\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post:\u003c/strong> BART unions are angrily accusing management of backing away from a possible contract agreement while the agency says a \"miscommunication\" is to blame for a new misunderstanding with the unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART chapter of SEIU Local 1021 and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/2013/10/09/bart-general-manager-grace-crunican-shatters-fragile-framework-of-agreement/\" target=\"_blank\">a statement \u003c/a>Wednesday night saying the agency had \"pulled the rug from underneath the unions as well as the entire Bay Area\" by withdrawing an offer they said had moved the two sides close to an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today, the unions came to the bargaining table with the hope that we could close the gap and reach a final agreement,\" the statement said. \"However, we were completely taken aback when BART Management backed up and withdrew their offer, claiming to have been confused the day before.\" The statement accused BART of lying to the unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART spokesman Jim Allison said the unions had gotten it wrong. \"It is not true that we had a proposal on the table that was withdrawn. I think it's more a case of miscommunication involving the mediator, working between all three parties,\" he told reporters outside Caltrans' District 4 headquarters in Oakland, where the talks have been underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both BART and the unions said they would return to talks Thursday — after a 9 a.m. BART board meeting at which directors are expected to discuss spending as much as $400,000 a day on replacement bus service in the event of another strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute comes after several days of publicly conciliatory comments from both sides in the talks and raises concerns that the unions could strike when a 60-day cooling-off period ends at midnight tonight. Unions have not issued a notice that they intend to strike now, but that notice is optional. Several major issues reportedly remain unresolved in the talks, including pay, health care benefits, and what union members will pay into their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=24bc05c5-0e2a-485e-bd13-c8ba92d2975e\" target=\"_blank\">new SurveyUSA poll\u003c/a> for San Francisco's KPIX-Channel 5 suggests the public wants the BART standoff resolved once and for all. The survey of 800 adults, conducted Wednesday, shows that 60 percent strongly oppose a strike while 12 percent strongly support one. Fifty-three percent of respondents said they agreed state law should be changed to ban future strikes while 38 percent said the law should stay as it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nBefore Wednesday night's dispute, union officials had expressed confidence that a new contract was within reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're less than $30 million apart,\" said Chris Finn, part of the negotiating team for ATU Local 1555. \"And with a $127 million surplus one year, and they have that surplus, at least, every year for the next 10 years, it's well within their power to resolve this and settle this immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KTVU, BART General Manager Grace Crunican said that surplus is to cover the agency's bond debt payments and capital expenses like replacing its aging fleet of train cars and improving infrastructure. \"They would like that money not to go into capital improvement but instead go into the pockets of the unions,\" Crunican said. \"And we need to find a fair way to provide compensation for our folks, but not investing in our capital and not paying our debt are not good choices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's video of Crunican's interview with KTVU's Tom Vacar:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"615\" height=\"392\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2733277802001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fbart-ktvu-speaks-to-barts-general-manager-about%2FvCFSDx%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2733277802001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fbart-ktvu-speaks-to-barts-general-manager-about%2FvCFSDx%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cembed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"615\" height=\"392\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2733277802001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fbart-ktvu-speaks-to-barts-general-manager-about%2FvCFSDx%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Negotiations continue at Caltrans District 4 headquarters in Oakland. San Francisco Chronicle transportation reporter Michael Cabanatuan told KQED that reporters monitoring the talks say it's a little hard to tell exactly where the talks are between BART and union negotiators at this point: \"There's a media blackout. They've all agreed voluntarily that they won't talk to the media about what's going on at the table, but they all indicate that there's some progress being made, perhaps slow progress but progress nonetheless. The mood does seem a little different. It doesn't seem quite as somber or quite as angry, and that's a good indication.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Andrew Stelzer reports that Bay Area business leaders are calling on employers to be prepared and be flexible in case talks break down. “We are prepared to tell our members…to change work schedules, to use flex time, to encourage carpools, to encourage work from home,\" said Jim Lazarus of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. \"Because we have to reduce travel on all the roads of the region if we're going to not suffer just an economically damaging level of gridlock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Officials for BART's two biggest unions just announced that they will not issue a 72-hour strike notice tonight and that talks with transit agency officials are continuing through state and federal mediators. Officials for the BART chapter of SEIU Local 1021 and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 said they were holding off issuing a strike notice to preserve every option as a court-imposed cooling-off period gets set to expire later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury-News offers some context on past strike notices and on where the negotiations are now:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The unions issued strike notices three days prior to a work stoppage in July and before a pending strike in August that was later averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcements are not required, however, and unions left the door open for a possible walkout if a deal is not reached by Thursday night's deadline. The strike notice is meant only as a courtesy so the 200,000 people who ride BART roundtrip each day could start looking for back-up plans to get around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going into negotiations on Monday, BART said it was about $89 million apart from the unions over four years, but the labor groups have pegged the gap at $30 million over three years. Progress was reported last week, however, when both sides swapped a series of counterproposals after months where both sides barely blinked. Using BART's math, they bridged the gap by about $23 million last week.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong> The 60-day cooling-off period in the BART labor standoff is set to expire late Thursday night, and new poll numbers show that Bay Area residents remain very unhappy with the prospect of a transit strike. With negotiations continuing, there are new signs that the two sides may finally be closing the gap in the contract positions they've staked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main issues still to be resolved center on pay, pensions, and medical benefits. The difference between the two sides is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bart/ci_24256589/bart-strike-looms-experts-see-hope-sides-get\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly\u003c/a> down to a total of $89 million over the life of the new proposed contract. Talks continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign that the hardline positions in the standoff may be softening is that BART has apparently dropped plans to have supervisors run limited train service during a work stoppage. In \u003ca href=\"http://bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20131004.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">its latest update\u003c/a> on strike planning, the agency says in the event of a strike, it's planning to run limited bus service from nine East Bay stations to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=55c32c55-017e-4bb6-8368-dfb10855c62b\" target=\"_blank\">a poll conducted Friday\u003c/a> for San Francisco's KPIX, SurveyUSA found that two-thirds of Bay Area residents say they're following the BART negotiations. The survey found that overall, 39 percent of respondents feel that BART management has made a better argument during the dispute, compared to 25 percent who think the unions have made a better case. The poll also found that 40 percent of respondents think unions should accept management's proposals, while 24 percent think BART should settle on the unions' terms. Here's a summary of two sides' most recently reported positions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The unions — chiefly the BART chapter of SEIU Local 1021 and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 — are seeking a pay increase of about 12 percent over three years. That compares to their opening position of 23 percent over four years. BART has offered 10 percent over four years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The unions have proposed additional small pay increases if BART ridership increases faster than the agency forecasts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On pensions, BART has sought to get the unions to agree to begin pension contributions at 1 percent of salary a year escalating to 4 percent by the last year of a four-year contract. Last week, the two agreed to a \"cost-neutral swap\" under which BART would pay workers 72 cents for every dollar the workers put into their pension funds. It's still unclear how the pension contributions and swap payments will figure into an overall settlement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The unions say they'll agree to a 15 percent increase in health-care contributions for all BART workers. Currently, union members pay $92 a month for medical coverage, even if family members are included. BART has proposed continuing flat-rate payments for individual members and limiting payments for family coverage to the least expensive of either a Kaiser or Blue Shield plan.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For more on the negotiations, reporter Mina Kim spoke with Paul Roose, a mediator based in Oakland who oversaw BART negotiations in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F114470510\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the board getting involved and the legislative leaders assisting and the general manager willing to sit down at the bargaining table that the unions are continuing to negotiate and hope to avoid a strike,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, said she was disappointed that the intensive talks of the last few days have not led to a new contract. \"On behalf of ATU, I am bitterly disappointed that did not take place,\" Bryant said. \"Everything is in place, like I said earlier today, to get that agreement done. The fact of the matter is, the district did not come to the table to take care of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the unions want Crunican directly involved in the negotiations because \"the other people at the table do not have the authority to get the deal done. We want her at the table because she does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the KRON4 video featuring the late-night statements from Sanchez and BART chief negotiator Thomas Hock:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/lcc4HVpDJoo?list=PLFMWhwFgm0Cc6OBglknEdKg24hJWtEHBc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 11:45 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The BART talks continue in Oakland, with a couple of interesting wrinkles to report. First, despite BART saying more than six hours ago that it was about to present a new offer to the unions, that offer has not yet been presented. Reporter Alex Emslie has been staking out the talks all evening for KQED, and said BART spokesman Jim Allison acknowledged the agency hadn't presented the offer after the earlier announcement. He suggested it was because state and federal mediators control the negotiation agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What everyone wants to know is will the trains be running in the morning. We still don't have a certain answer on that with just half an hour to go before Gov. Jerry Brown's 60-day cooling-off periood, called in August to give BART and the unions time to sort all this out, expires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, KRON4 reports that a court in San Francisco has freed \u003ca href=\"http://news.kron4.com/news/naked-bart-acrobat-freed/\" target=\"_blank\">the infamous naked 16th Street BART gymnast\u003c/a>. Yeiner Perez was arrested at the station in May after a frightening escapade during which he physically accosted several passengers, threatened others, and did an extended impromptu acrobatic routine. Unions publicized a video of the incident (\u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/pm6udzd6\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>) to highlight their contention that BART management has not paid enough attention to their safety concerns in contract talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 5:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Mercury News reporter Mike Rosenberg reports that \"as of 5 p.m., negotiations were continuing, but no deal had been reached and the unions had not announced whether they would strike.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART negotiators were preparing to submit a new offer Thursday afternoon in hopes of averting a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Rosenberg tweeted\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>This graph shows how unions' support in polls, already low a week ago, has gotten even lower \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/kEF5JAwyvf\">http://t.co/kEF5JAwyvf\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BARTstrike&src=hash\">#BARTstrike\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RosenbergMerc/statuses/388449470477647872\">October 10, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The graph is from a new poll by \u003ca href=\"http://www.surveyusa.com/\">SurveyUSA\u003c/a>. It shows that support for the unions has dropped: Fifty-four percent of respondents say that the unions should accept BART management's offer, up from 40 percent on Oct. 4. Sixteen percent say BART should accept the unions' offer, down from 24 percent on Oct. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 2:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> With less than 12 hours until another BART strike becomes possible, union representatives appeared at this morning's open BART board meeting in Oakland and repeated charges that the agency has backed away from the terms of a tentative agreement. Union comments also suggest that BART's pay offer — a 10 percent increase over four years, at the same time workers make new pension contributions and increase what they pay for medical benefits — is still a huge stumbling block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Emslie, reporting for KQED from the meeting, says union members called on the board to send General Manager Grace Crunican into the talks as time has grown too short to conduct the back-and-forth through state and federal mediators. But BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said Crunican would enter the talks only when negotiators were \"inches away\" from an agreement, and that hasn't happened yet. 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I think it's more a case of miscommunication involving the mediator, working between all three parties,\" he told reporters outside Caltrans' District 4 headquarters in Oakland, where the talks have been underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both BART and the unions said they would return to talks Thursday — after a 9 a.m. BART board meeting at which directors are expected to discuss spending as much as $400,000 a day on replacement bus service in the event of another strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute comes after several days of publicly conciliatory comments from both sides in the talks and raises concerns that the unions could strike when a 60-day cooling-off period ends at midnight tonight. Unions have not issued a notice that they intend to strike now, but that notice is optional. Several major issues reportedly remain unresolved in the talks, including pay, health care benefits, and what union members will pay into their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=24bc05c5-0e2a-485e-bd13-c8ba92d2975e\" target=\"_blank\">new SurveyUSA poll\u003c/a> for San Francisco's KPIX-Channel 5 suggests the public wants the BART standoff resolved once and for all. The survey of 800 adults, conducted Wednesday, shows that 60 percent strongly oppose a strike while 12 percent strongly support one. Fifty-three percent of respondents said they agreed state law should be changed to ban future strikes while 38 percent said the law should stay as it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nBefore Wednesday night's dispute, union officials had expressed confidence that a new contract was within reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're less than $30 million apart,\" said Chris Finn, part of the negotiating team for ATU Local 1555. \"And with a $127 million surplus one year, and they have that surplus, at least, every year for the next 10 years, it's well within their power to resolve this and settle this immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KTVU, BART General Manager Grace Crunican said that surplus is to cover the agency's bond debt payments and capital expenses like replacing its aging fleet of train cars and improving infrastructure. \"They would like that money not to go into capital improvement but instead go into the pockets of the unions,\" Crunican said. \"And we need to find a fair way to provide compensation for our folks, but not investing in our capital and not paying our debt are not good choices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's video of Crunican's interview with KTVU's Tom Vacar:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"615\" height=\"392\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2733277802001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fbart-ktvu-speaks-to-barts-general-manager-about%2FvCFSDx%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2733277802001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fbart-ktvu-speaks-to-barts-general-manager-about%2FvCFSDx%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cembed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"615\" height=\"392\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2733277802001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fvideos%2Fnews%2Fbart-ktvu-speaks-to-barts-general-manager-about%2FvCFSDx%2F&playerID=836564367001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAVzySoEk~,39KWv4t6IXBhr9fjdqt8jJhoVTxYZojR&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Negotiations continue at Caltrans District 4 headquarters in Oakland. 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It doesn't seem quite as somber or quite as angry, and that's a good indication.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Andrew Stelzer reports that Bay Area business leaders are calling on employers to be prepared and be flexible in case talks break down. “We are prepared to tell our members…to change work schedules, to use flex time, to encourage carpools, to encourage work from home,\" said Jim Lazarus of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. \"Because we have to reduce travel on all the roads of the region if we're going to not suffer just an economically damaging level of gridlock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Officials for BART's two biggest unions just announced that they will not issue a 72-hour strike notice tonight and that talks with transit agency officials are continuing through state and federal mediators. Officials for the BART chapter of SEIU Local 1021 and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 said they were holding off issuing a strike notice to preserve every option as a court-imposed cooling-off period gets set to expire later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury-News offers some context on past strike notices and on where the negotiations are now:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The unions issued strike notices three days prior to a work stoppage in July and before a pending strike in August that was later averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcements are not required, however, and unions left the door open for a possible walkout if a deal is not reached by Thursday night's deadline. 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In \u003ca href=\"http://bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20131004.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">its latest update\u003c/a> on strike planning, the agency says in the event of a strike, it's planning to run limited bus service from nine East Bay stations to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=55c32c55-017e-4bb6-8368-dfb10855c62b\" target=\"_blank\">a poll conducted Friday\u003c/a> for San Francisco's KPIX, SurveyUSA found that two-thirds of Bay Area residents say they're following the BART negotiations. The survey found that overall, 39 percent of respondents feel that BART management has made a better argument during the dispute, compared to 25 percent who think the unions have made a better case. The poll also found that 40 percent of respondents think unions should accept management's proposals, while 24 percent think BART should settle on the unions' terms. 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