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Employers have been shutting down operations in response to what they call intentional worker slowdowns, which the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ilwu.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Longshore and Warehouse Union\u003c/a> denies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20,000 dockworkers up and down the West Coast have been working without a contract since July, and contract talks with shipping companies and terminal operators have been at an impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees said the port closures are counterproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “We’re dealing with big, powerful multinational corporations, most of them foreign-based, and they may feel casual about closing the ports for the West Coast,” Merrilees said. “But I don’t think anybody that lives here does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Port reports that containerized imports were down 39 percent last month, compared to January of last year, and exports declined 26 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses that rely on the port are caught in the middle. Joanne Gomez, CFO of the manufacturing company West Bay Counters in San Francisco, said she’s lost business waiting on supplies stuck at the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t even get materials for the jobs that we have. So it kind of puts us at a standstill. You know, if you can’t get materials, how do you manufacture things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s citrus industry is also feeling the effects of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bitter-shipping-battle-continues-at-Oakland-port-6068413.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result#/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor dispute,\u003c/a> which involves 29 West Coast ports. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Central Valley Bureau Chief Sasha Khokha says it’s the height of the harvest season in a state that annually ships some $500 million worth of oranges, lemons and other citrus to Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Some of the highest-quality fruit fetches a premium price in places like Japan and Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Roth, CEO of Cecelia Packing near Fresno, told Khokha that growers who are already struggling — after a bad freeze last winter and the current drought — have been extremely hard hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The export markets, we derive a couple of extra dollars per box more,” he said. “You sure want the most money you can get for this citrus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth said his company is shipping only about 25 percent of its normal load, and is not even sure if all of that is making it across the ocean before the fruit rots. He said he’s worried that even after the dispute at the ports is resolved, it could still take weeks to address the backlog of citrus shipments. And the peak growing season lasts only another six to eight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that might be good news for California consumers, Khokha says. More citrus could be diverted to the domestic market, resulting in lower prices at the checkout counter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other crops affected by the slowdown at the ports include almonds and rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191515422″ 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>Meanwhile, Oakland officials are hoping the arrival of President Obama’s labor secretary on Tuesday can help get contract negotiations — and cargo — moving again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to meeting with dockworkers and their employers, Labor Secretary Tom Perez is engaging mayors in port cities affected by the ongoing labor dispute. Over the weekend, Obama said Perez would take a more active role in ending the costly dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez held the first of what will be daily conference calls with the port mayors on Monday. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said Perez wanted to hear about the impact of port slowdowns on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had no idea that we literally had California produce rotting on decks because these ships are so delayed in Southern California, that they’re just turning around and heading back to Asia without coming up to make their originally planned stop in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said Perez is exploring relief measures, such as temporarily relaxing time standards for the movement of goods and whether cities might offer training wages to dockworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said the conference calls will also touch on potential actions that mayors could take as a group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/william-b-gould-iv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Gould\u003c/a>, Stanford law professor emeritus and former chairman of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlrb.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Labor Relations Board\u003c/a>, told KQED’s Stephanie Martin Taylor that he’s struck by the fact both sides have overcome major differences — such as wages, health care and contracting out — that are normally formidable in the bargaining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems as though it’s all boiling down to one issue in Southern California — and that is the choice of an arbitrator, and the concern about rulings that he’s issued dealing with stoppages that have taken place down there,” Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes that the labor secretary, because of the prestige of the president, has a good shot at bringing the parties together. Gould hopes so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re doing is losing a lot of the work that we have to ports like Houston, as employers begin to look to other ports where they can ship their goods,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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You know, if you can’t get materials, how do you manufacture things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s citrus industry is also feeling the effects of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bitter-shipping-battle-continues-at-Oakland-port-6068413.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result#/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labor dispute,\u003c/a> which involves 29 West Coast ports. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Central Valley Bureau Chief Sasha Khokha says it’s the height of the harvest season in a state that annually ships some $500 million worth of oranges, lemons and other citrus to Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 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"content": "\u003cp>The labor dispute at West Coast ports is heating up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port operators announced Wednesday what amounts to a holiday weekend shutdown -- they won't hire crews to load or unload ships Thursday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday, when they'd have to pay Presidents Day holiday or weekend wages to dockworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cargo movement has been at virtual gridlock since mid-January, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/13/usa-ports-westcoast-idUSL1N0US09W20150113\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\u003c/a> report, stranding cargo containers at ports and idling ships at sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190766315\" 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>The labor dispute began last July, when the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ilwu.org/\" target=\"_blank\">International Longshore and Warehouse Union's\u003c/a> contract expired. 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The district has decided not to honor that agreement and last week we filed an unfair labor practice charge with the Public Employee Relations Board,\" he said. \"This unfair labor practice exemplifies why the machinists and other employees do not trust the district's current health care proposals at the bargaining table.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Fehler, the bridge district's director of marketing communication, said later that management \"denies that it has committed an unfair labor practice or violated the law in any way. In this regard, the labor action is totally unwarranted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that during labor talks, the district \"has sought modest increases to the amount that Coalition employees have been contributing to their health benefits. District employees enjoy world class health benefits. The small contributions the district is asking employees to make to maintain these benefits is a mere fraction of the cost the district incurs and would remain less than the contributions made by most private and public employees in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>It's been months -- months! -- since we've had a labor dispute involving one of our local transit agencies. But another one, this time involving Golden Gate ferry and bus workers, may be imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 13-union \u003ca href=\"http://goldengatelabor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition\u003c/a> says it will announce at 4 p.m. Monday whether members will walk out over a contract dispute with district management. The 450 workers in the coalition include bus mechanics, ferry captains, deckhands, ironworkers and structural engineers, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Familiar issues are at the heart of the dispute: wages and health care premiums. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/05/golden-gate-bridge-district-workers-vote-authorize-strike/\" target=\"_blank\">Unions are seeking \u003c/a> a three-year contract, including a 3.75 percent per year pay increase and a .5 percent contribution to health care premiums. The coalition says the bridge district has countered with a 3 percent per year wage increase but that most of the pay increases would be wiped out by new health care premiums of 2 percent a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strike would shut down ferries to Sausalito and Larkspur, a service that had \u003ca href=\"http://goldengateferry.org/researchlibrary/statistics.php\" target=\"_blank\">an average weekday ridership in fiscal 2013-14 of about 7,500\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walkout would probably shut down Golden Gate bus service into the city, too. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Isabel Angell, Dan Brekke and Bryan Goebel \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS10658_IMG_6302-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-139364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS10658_IMG_6302-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers board a 38-Geary bus near Union Square. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers board a 38-Geary bus near Union Square. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6/27/14 7:20 pm:\u003c/strong> The union representing Muni operators said late Friday it reached a tentative agreement with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. However, a Muni spokesman would not confirm a deal was struck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union issued this press release Friday evening:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv style=\"color: #222222\">\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 250-A, representing San Francisco MUNI operators, announced today that union negotiators have reached a tentative labor agreement with the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Authority (SFMTA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\"Thanks to strong support of our membership and hard work at the negotiating table, we have reached a new tentative agreement,\" said Eric Williams, President of TWU Local 250-A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">Details of the new agreement will be presented to union members at a special membership meeting this coming Monday, June 30. The proposed three-year contract is subject to ratification by union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\"Our members are committed to providing quality transit in San Francisco,\" said Williams. \"And we continue to believe that best way to resolve labor-management concerns is through fair and balanced collective bargaining.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA board has scheduled \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/calendar/meetings/board-directors-special-meeting-june-30-2014\">a special meeting\u003c/a> for Monday at 11 a.m. that includes options to approve or reject a tentative agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story 6/17/14:\u003c/strong> Muni and its union bus and rail operators remain at an impasse in their contract dispute — with the union insisting that it wants to reopen bargaining on an already-mediated two-year agreement and agency officials saying they have only limited power to renegotiate the pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle centers on a mediated agreement that includes a pension payment \"swap\": Workers would pick up a pension contribution equivalent to 7.5 percent of the salary that's now paid by the city. In exchange, they'd get a 5.05 percent salary increase to cover the new payment. The agreement also includes a 3 percent pay increase in the contract's first year and a cost-of-living increase in the second year that would range from 2.25 to 3.25 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transport Workers Union Local 250-A President Eric Williams says local officials initially agreed to the pension swap when it was mediated in early May. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/Portals/21/250-Altrrel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter over the weekend to San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin\u003c/a>, Williams said a certified public accountant's later analysis of the swap showed it would result in a \"net wage cut\" for bus and train operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says the CPA's analysis led Local 250-A officials to back away from recommending the contract to members, who then rejected the agreement on May 30 with 96 percent voting \"no.\" The vote was a prelude to a three-day sickout that paralyzed most Muni service. The two sides have made no apparent progress in resolving the dispute the job action ended nearly two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials have said their hands are tied by City Charter language that bars further negotiations once an agreement has been mediated and voted on. At that point, they say, the City Charter requires the agency to proceed to impasse arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Williams' letter to Reiskin argues that since the SFMTA made \"misrepresentations\" about the pension swap and thus failed to live up to a City Charter requirement for good-faith bargaining. Because of that, Williams wrote, the two sides should get back to bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agency wants to get to mediation-slash-arbitration,\" Williams said Monday. \"We aren't there yet. We feel we should be sitting back down at the table, letting them clarify the issues surrounding the pensions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni officials say the bus and rail operators are the only city employees not making pension contributions and insist that needs to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the union is open to a pension agreement, but it needs to be \"an even swap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The members of Local 250-A have not received a wage increase for over four years,\" Williams said. \"We don't have a problem with paying our own pension. But just like they did every other union — police, fire and everybody else — they gave them an even swap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency spokesman Paul Rose says the mediated agreement is open for discussion, and possible changes, through June 30. That's the final day in the city's current fiscal year and the last day the Board of Supervisors and mayor can agree to spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point,\" Rose said, \"we're doing everything we can to make sure that we can avoid another sickout and make sure that our operators have good and fair wage increases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said union leadership had no part in organizing the earlier sickout and said operators staged the action out of frustration with their treatment by the city. As to the prospect of another sickout, Williams said, \"We would just have to see. I will be surprised just like everyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle centers on a mediated agreement that includes a pension payment \"swap\": Workers would pick up a pension contribution equivalent to 7.5 percent of the salary that's now paid by the city. In exchange, they'd get a 5.05 percent salary increase to cover the new payment. The agreement also includes a 3 percent pay increase in the contract's first year and a cost-of-living increase in the second year that would range from 2.25 to 3.25 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transport Workers Union Local 250-A President Eric Williams says local officials initially agreed to the pension swap when it was mediated in early May. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/Portals/21/250-Altrrel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter over the weekend to San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin\u003c/a>, Williams said a certified public accountant's later analysis of the swap showed it would result in a \"net wage cut\" for bus and train operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says the CPA's analysis led Local 250-A officials to back away from recommending the contract to members, who then rejected the agreement on May 30 with 96 percent voting \"no.\" The vote was a prelude to a three-day sickout that paralyzed most Muni service. The two sides have made no apparent progress in resolving the dispute the job action ended nearly two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials have said their hands are tied by City Charter language that bars further negotiations once an agreement has been mediated and voted on. At that point, they say, the City Charter requires the agency to proceed to impasse arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Williams' letter to Reiskin argues that since the SFMTA made \"misrepresentations\" about the pension swap and thus failed to live up to a City Charter requirement for good-faith bargaining. Because of that, Williams wrote, the two sides should get back to bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agency wants to get to mediation-slash-arbitration,\" Williams said Monday. \"We aren't there yet. We feel we should be sitting back down at the table, letting them clarify the issues surrounding the pensions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni officials say the bus and rail operators are the only city employees not making pension contributions and insist that needs to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the union is open to a pension agreement, but it needs to be \"an even swap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The members of Local 250-A have not received a wage increase for over four years,\" Williams said. \"We don't have a problem with paying our own pension. But just like they did every other union — police, fire and everybody else — they gave them an even swap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency spokesman Paul Rose says the mediated agreement is open for discussion, and possible changes, through June 30. That's the final day in the city's current fiscal year and the last day the Board of Supervisors and mayor can agree to spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point,\" Rose said, \"we're doing everything we can to make sure that we can avoid another sickout and make sure that our operators have good and fair wage increases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said union leadership had no part in organizing the earlier sickout and said operators staged the action out of frustration with their treatment by the city. As to the prospect of another sickout, Williams said, \"We would just have to see. I will be surprised just like everyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Muni's Sickout Ends and Even the Cable Cars Are Returning",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/muniyard060214a-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-137748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/muniyard060214a-1-of-1-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"Idle buses at Muni’s Potrero Division yard during Monday’s driver sickout. (Olivia Allen-Price)\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idle buses at Muni’s Potrero Division yard during Monday’s driver sickout. (Olivia Allen-Price)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The Great Muni Sickout of 2014 has ended. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is telling riders that all vehicles, including cable cars, will be following their regular routes this morning. The return to transit normalcy comes after a three-day sickout by operators that appeared to be the result of an ongoing contract dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA site: \"Muni service availability has steadily improved over the past few days, and is expected to provide approximately 90 percent of this morning's service based on pre-service data. Muni operated at 54 percent, 61 percent, and 80 percent of total service on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, this week respectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said that buses, trolley coaches, cable cars, the Muni Metro and the F-Market & Wharves historic streetcar line will all be back to business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera \u003ca href=\"http://sfcityattorney.org/index.aspx?page=597\" target=\"_blank\">filed unfair labor practice charges\u003c/a> with the state's Public Employment Relations Board in an attempt to end the sickout. Although the union denies any involvement in the sickout, the charges allege that Transport Workers Union Local 250-A was flouting contract and City Charter provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint maintains that the sickout is illegal under state law as well as the existing contract with Muni workers. Given the union's rejection of the SFMTA's offer, the complaint says, a neutral three-member arbitration board should resolve the impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-city-attorney-files-legal-charges-to-halt-5527895.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that an arbitrator is scheduled to meet with negotiators from labor and management on Saturday, but that a spokesman for the city attorney's office said the union's lawyer sent a letter saying the union wouldn't attend. The story also reported that transit workers voted 1,198-47 against the proposed contract, according to union officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Here's Muni's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/news/press-releases/sfmta-updates-muni-service-plan-wednesday-morning\" target=\"_blank\">updated service plan for Wednesday morning\u003c/a>. Again, the agency says about 440 of its normal fleet of 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars are operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is saying that things are looking better than the past couple of mornings. The agency is putting about 70 percent of its fleet on the street as some bus drivers and rail operators continue a job action fueled by anger over a city contract proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's count of vehicles on the road this morning is about 440 of the normal 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars. Significant \"gaps and delays\" are expected again throughout the system, though Muni is restoring service where it can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service will return on all bus lines, including Muni's express (X) and limited (L) lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muni Metro light-rail service will operate two-car trains.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>F-Line streetcars will run between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building but not on Market Street.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cable cars continue to be shut down. Some limited shuttle bus service is available along the car routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART will continue to honor Muni fares and transfers between the Daly City and Embarcadero stations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin says things are looking up for tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We are starting to see a little bit of turnaround in terms of attendance coming back,\" Reiskin said. \"I’m cautiously optimistic that tomorrow should be much better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously for a resolution calling on workers to return to their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be very strong and clear as elected representatives of the people of San Francisco that it is not OK to debilitate the Muni system,\" said Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA is also telling the Muni operators' union that it will seek damages for the sickout by operators. Transport Workers Union Local 250-A President Eric Williams said that the union had nothing to do with the sickout but that \"it's understandable, given the frustration over how the men and women are being treated by the city and the agency.\" In a letter, Williams also called on workers to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Already worrying about the evening commute? The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency just released new bus and light-rail schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning at 3 p.m., the J, L, M and N will now operate on short routes with limited bus shuttles to the terminals. Also, note that we've heard from several riders who were able to ride buses listed as not in operation today. Cable cars are still not in operation, and their lines are covered by limited bus shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Metro\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>J-Church — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 30th Street. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 30th Street and Balboa Park Station. Customers traveling between Balboa Park Station and 30th are encouraged to use BART or Mission Street routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>K-Ingleside — Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>L-Taraval — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 22nd Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 22nd Avenue and the Zoo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>M-Ocean View — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and S.F. State. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Holloway and Balboa Park Station.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>N-Judah — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 19th Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Ocean Beach. T-Third trains will provide service from Embarcadero to Caltrain at Fourth and King.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>T-Third— Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Bus Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>No limited-stop service on the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L and 71L routes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The following routes will not operate:\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>16X, 88\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3-Jackson – The majority of stops on this route are covered by the 2-Clement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>8AX-Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Muni officials announced that an arbitration hearing on the contract dispute is scheduled to take place Saturday. But Eric Williams, president of the local transport workers union, said he wants to resume contract talks before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137875 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n-300x300.jpg\" alt='Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni \"sickout.\" (Courtesy Ian Sherr)' width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni sickout. (Courtesy Ian Sherr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, we are ready and prepared to go back to the table with the agency,\" Williams said. \"We just want to assure the public that we're here to offer up the services that we're supposed to. We're here. We're just asking to be treated fairly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has played no role in the sickout, and was surprised when it happened. Williams apologized to residents of San Francisco, but blamed the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I apologize,\" he said. \"But actually it's on the city. For 30 years there was a system in place that helped negotiate or navigate these issues through negotiations. That's been taken away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee criticized the 300 or so drivers who have called in sick over the last two days, and called on them to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> It's Day Two of the Great Muni Sickout of 2014. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is reporting that bus and rail operators have again called in sick in large numbers, meaning that just a fraction of normal service is available for the Tuesday morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni reported Tuesday that about 300 of the usual fleet of 600 vehicles rolled out this morning. Transit delays are reported on most lines in the city, and the agency says commuters should expect big crowds and delays of up to an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, which represents Muni operators staging a sickout, released a statement Tuesday morning on its contract negotiations with the city. The statement said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SFMTA managers had told workers throughout the bargaining process that any shift from the city’s pension contributions to a plan funded by individuals would be offset by wage increases and would be “cost neutral.” However, even with wage increases of more than 8.05 percent proposed by SFMTA, drivers would experience a cut in their take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three years, drivers received no wage increases and are currently paid less than their counterparts in Seattle, Santa Clara, and other comparable public transit systems. Rather than improving wages and benefits, under the transit agency’s proposal, the vast majority of drivers would be paid less in real wages over the life of the agreement than they make now. MUNI workers are the only public employees in the City of San Francisco being targeted for a reduction in earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a great city, but a very difficult place to operate a bus, streetcar or cable car,” said TWU 250-A President Eric Williams. “This also is a very expensive city and while SFMTA’s ridership and revenues are on rising, the agency seeks to cut wages and benefits and convert full-time positions to part time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TWU 250-A has offered to return to the bargaining table -- but that offer has been rejected. Rather than bargain in good faith, management hopes that an arbitrator will shift pension costs, reduce wages and allow the replacement of full-time experienced drivers with part-time drivers paid at rates far below the full-timers. The transit agency also seeks to establish a 5-year wage progression schedule that would create two classes of workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency says its light-rail lines — the J-Church, K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, M-Ocean View, N-Judah and T-Third — are all running. To maximize capacity, each train is operating with just two cars. The F-Line streetcars are operating only between the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf — no service is being offered up Market Street to the Castro. The city's cable car lines are shut down for a second straight day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday bus service details, per Muni:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 8AX Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes. There will be no limited-stop service (affects the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L). And the following routes will not operate: 1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX, 16X, 88, 3-Jackson (the majority of stops on the 3 are covered by the 2-Clement).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The SFMTA \u003ca href=\"#memo\">sent a memo to workers\u003c/a> today stating that the agency will not pay workers without a doctor's note or other verification. Chief of Staff Alicia John-Baptiste also reminded workers that they are forbidden to strike under their contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The union that represents Muni operators has overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposal made by SFMTA. The proposal would have given Muni drivers an 11.25 percent raise over two years and required that they contribute 7.5 percent to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d134f0359725d385e10f4eedab35370b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of Muni bus, light rail and cable car operations remain offline, and there are widespread delays across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think I’ve been here 15 minutes,\" said Ernestine Jensen, a retired San Francisco resident waiting for an F-line historic streetcar at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue. After she learned that only two of 20 trains were running, she left. \"I’ll do my shopping another day,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:25 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Muni is scrambling to patch together service as bus and rail operators follow through with a threatened sickout this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via Twitter (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">@sfmta_muni\u003c/a>), the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it's seeing \"major delays\" throughout the city. Agency spokesman Paul Rose says that 400 of the 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars that would normally be on the streets have been idled because of driver absences. The sickout is in response to widespread anger over a city contract proposal (see original post below for details).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni urged riders to take alternate service Monday if possible and announced that BART will honor Muni passes and transfers between Daly City and downtown San Francisco stops today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited service is rolling, Muni says, but all express buses will operate as local runs. F-Line streetcar service has been hit by long delays and is being supplemented with shuttle bus service. No cable car service will operate until at least noon, the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've called in as many operators as we could to help fill service,\" Rose told KQED's Ted Goldberg, \"and they account for the 200 vehicles we were able to put out this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Muni is trying to make plans to deal with a second day of operator absences. He said the agency is contacting other transit providers in the region that might be able to supplement Muni's severely curtailed service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that today is the only day this will impact our riders,\" Rose said. \"We're certainly hoping for the best but planning for the worst.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137767\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137767 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/waiting-640x460.jpg\" alt=\"Riders faced long waits at Muni stops. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"230\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders faced long waits at Muni stops. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night): \u003c/strong>A Muni spokesman said Sunday night that a higher-than-normal number of bus and light-rail operators have called in ill for Monday morning, increasing the chance that union members unhappy with a city contract proposal will stage a sickout on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it appears the majority of our transit operators will be on the job tomorrow, early attendance reports indicate that service could be impacted,” said San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Paul Rose. “We will be working through the night and morning to balance service the best we can across the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Muni is urging riders to leave early in the morning and follow updates on Twitter — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">@sfmta_Muni\u003c/a> — and to sign up for email and text alerts on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SFMTA’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rumored sickout, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/muni_drivers_voting_on_union_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">first reported Friday by SF Weekly\u003c/a>, came on the same day that Muni's 2,200 operators and mechanics began voting on a contract that Eric Williams, president of Transit Workers Local 250-A, \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/PresidentsCorner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">said was full of “unreasonable takeaways in wages and benefits\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal dispute between Muni and the operators — who, like other municipal workers, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdhr.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=15396\" target=\"_blank\">barred from striking\u003c/a> by the City Charter — revolves around two monetary issues: pay raises in the new two-year contract and a requirement for new pension contributions by union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/Portals/21/PDFs/9163_CBA_Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">summary of the contract\u003c/a> posted by Local 250-A shows that operators hired before July 1, 2011, will get a 5.05 percent \"base wage increase\" starting next month, plus another 3 percent. In exchange, the contract requires operators to pay a 7.5 percent pension contribution that until now was paid by Muni. The second year of the contract includes a raise of between 2.25 and 3.25 percent, depending on inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 250-A voted on the contract Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/muni_drivers_voting_on_union_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">members predicting it would be voted down\u003c/a>. No results had been announced by late Sunday. If operators reject the contract, the dispute will be submitted to arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"memo\">\u003c/a>SFMTA Memo to Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View SFMTA Memo to 'Sick-out' Transit Operators on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/227718786/SFMTA-Memo-to-Sick-out-Transit-Operators?secret_password=Q3cnZHf3fhUj43FJXslf\">SFMTA Memo to 'Sick-out' Transit Operators\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View KQED News's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/KQED_News\">KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_92153\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/227718786/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-QefEWhJkjFLrvMkLVMhG&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nKQED's Dan Brekke, Olivia Allen-Price, Lisa Pickoff-White, Bryan Goebel, Isabel Angell, Guy Marzorati and Ted Goldberg contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-city-attorney-files-legal-charges-to-halt-5527895.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that an arbitrator is scheduled to meet with negotiators from labor and management on Saturday, but that a spokesman for the city attorney's office said the union's lawyer sent a letter saying the union wouldn't attend. The story also reported that transit workers voted 1,198-47 against the proposed contract, according to union officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Here's Muni's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/news/press-releases/sfmta-updates-muni-service-plan-wednesday-morning\" target=\"_blank\">updated service plan for Wednesday morning\u003c/a>. Again, the agency says about 440 of its normal fleet of 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars are operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is saying that things are looking better than the past couple of mornings. The agency is putting about 70 percent of its fleet on the street as some bus drivers and rail operators continue a job action fueled by anger over a city contract proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's count of vehicles on the road this morning is about 440 of the normal 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars. Significant \"gaps and delays\" are expected again throughout the system, though Muni is restoring service where it can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service will return on all bus lines, including Muni's express (X) and limited (L) lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muni Metro light-rail service will operate two-car trains.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>F-Line streetcars will run between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building but not on Market Street.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cable cars continue to be shut down. Some limited shuttle bus service is available along the car routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART will continue to honor Muni fares and transfers between the Daly City and Embarcadero stations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin says things are looking up for tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We are starting to see a little bit of turnaround in terms of attendance coming back,\" Reiskin said. \"I’m cautiously optimistic that tomorrow should be much better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously for a resolution calling on workers to return to their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be very strong and clear as elected representatives of the people of San Francisco that it is not OK to debilitate the Muni system,\" said Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA is also telling the Muni operators' union that it will seek damages for the sickout by operators. Transport Workers Union Local 250-A President Eric Williams said that the union had nothing to do with the sickout but that \"it's understandable, given the frustration over how the men and women are being treated by the city and the agency.\" In a letter, Williams also called on workers to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Already worrying about the evening commute? The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency just released new bus and light-rail schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning at 3 p.m., the J, L, M and N will now operate on short routes with limited bus shuttles to the terminals. Also, note that we've heard from several riders who were able to ride buses listed as not in operation today. Cable cars are still not in operation, and their lines are covered by limited bus shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Metro\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>J-Church — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 30th Street. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 30th Street and Balboa Park Station. Customers traveling between Balboa Park Station and 30th are encouraged to use BART or Mission Street routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>K-Ingleside — Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>L-Taraval — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 22nd Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 22nd Avenue and the Zoo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>M-Ocean View — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and S.F. State. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Holloway and Balboa Park Station.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>N-Judah — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 19th Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Ocean Beach. T-Third trains will provide service from Embarcadero to Caltrain at Fourth and King.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>T-Third— Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Bus Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>No limited-stop service on the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L and 71L routes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The following routes will not operate:\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>16X, 88\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3-Jackson – The majority of stops on this route are covered by the 2-Clement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>8AX-Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Muni officials announced that an arbitration hearing on the contract dispute is scheduled to take place Saturday. But Eric Williams, president of the local transport workers union, said he wants to resume contract talks before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137875 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n-300x300.jpg\" alt='Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni \"sickout.\" (Courtesy Ian Sherr)' width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni sickout. (Courtesy Ian Sherr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, we are ready and prepared to go back to the table with the agency,\" Williams said. \"We just want to assure the public that we're here to offer up the services that we're supposed to. We're here. We're just asking to be treated fairly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has played no role in the sickout, and was surprised when it happened. Williams apologized to residents of San Francisco, but blamed the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I apologize,\" he said. \"But actually it's on the city. For 30 years there was a system in place that helped negotiate or navigate these issues through negotiations. That's been taken away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee criticized the 300 or so drivers who have called in sick over the last two days, and called on them to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> It's Day Two of the Great Muni Sickout of 2014. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is reporting that bus and rail operators have again called in sick in large numbers, meaning that just a fraction of normal service is available for the Tuesday morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni reported Tuesday that about 300 of the usual fleet of 600 vehicles rolled out this morning. Transit delays are reported on most lines in the city, and the agency says commuters should expect big crowds and delays of up to an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, which represents Muni operators staging a sickout, released a statement Tuesday morning on its contract negotiations with the city. The statement said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SFMTA managers had told workers throughout the bargaining process that any shift from the city’s pension contributions to a plan funded by individuals would be offset by wage increases and would be “cost neutral.” However, even with wage increases of more than 8.05 percent proposed by SFMTA, drivers would experience a cut in their take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three years, drivers received no wage increases and are currently paid less than their counterparts in Seattle, Santa Clara, and other comparable public transit systems. Rather than improving wages and benefits, under the transit agency’s proposal, the vast majority of drivers would be paid less in real wages over the life of the agreement than they make now. MUNI workers are the only public employees in the City of San Francisco being targeted for a reduction in earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a great city, but a very difficult place to operate a bus, streetcar or cable car,” said TWU 250-A President Eric Williams. “This also is a very expensive city and while SFMTA’s ridership and revenues are on rising, the agency seeks to cut wages and benefits and convert full-time positions to part time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TWU 250-A has offered to return to the bargaining table -- but that offer has been rejected. Rather than bargain in good faith, management hopes that an arbitrator will shift pension costs, reduce wages and allow the replacement of full-time experienced drivers with part-time drivers paid at rates far below the full-timers. The transit agency also seeks to establish a 5-year wage progression schedule that would create two classes of workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency says its light-rail lines — the J-Church, K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, M-Ocean View, N-Judah and T-Third — are all running. To maximize capacity, each train is operating with just two cars. The F-Line streetcars are operating only between the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf — no service is being offered up Market Street to the Castro. The city's cable car lines are shut down for a second straight day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday bus service details, per Muni:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 8AX Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes. There will be no limited-stop service (affects the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L). And the following routes will not operate: 1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX, 16X, 88, 3-Jackson (the majority of stops on the 3 are covered by the 2-Clement).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The SFMTA \u003ca href=\"#memo\">sent a memo to workers\u003c/a> today stating that the agency will not pay workers without a doctor's note or other verification. Chief of Staff Alicia John-Baptiste also reminded workers that they are forbidden to strike under their contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The union that represents Muni operators has overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposal made by SFMTA. The proposal would have given Muni drivers an 11.25 percent raise over two years and required that they contribute 7.5 percent to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of Muni bus, light rail and cable car operations remain offline, and there are widespread delays across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think I’ve been here 15 minutes,\" said Ernestine Jensen, a retired San Francisco resident waiting for an F-line historic streetcar at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue. 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