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For example, the unions started out seeking something like a 23 percent wage increase over four years, while the agency countered with a 4 percent offer. Hard to see how that gap would be closed, right? But those were opening positions in the weeks before workers struck for five days in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 30-day extension of talks and a 60-day cooling-off period, several more strike deadlines and a couple of slow-motion rounds of on-again, off-again talks, the landscape looks a little different. By the end of last week, management had upped its offer to a bit more than 10 percent over four year; the unions had come down to 12 percent over three years. That by itself wasn’t enough to get a deal done, but it does demonstrate some force of compromise at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to yesterday, as BART and the unions worked against their latest deadline. There was virtually nothing to report — and by report, I mean blog what I was distilling from tweets and various newscast nuggets — except meal deliveries to the negotiating site. Then at 10 p.m., a contingent of state legislators emerged from the talks and announced that discussions had been stopped cold six hours earlier when BART management had presented a “\u003ca href=\"http://bartlabornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BART-Latest-ProposalV2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last, best and final offer\u003c/a>” to the unions. The way the legislators and union leaders described it — and what BART General Manager Grace Crunican seemed to confirm — the proposal amounted to a take-it-or-leave it offer. Although \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/13/bart-strike-deadline-update-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the unions agreed to keep talking\u003c/a> through today, a strike suddenly seemed not only possible, but likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what exactly is a “last, best and final offer” and how might it fit into the overall tactics of the BART negotiations? KQED’s Mina Kim talked to \u003ca href=\"http://goldengatedisputeresolution.com/about-paul-roose/paul-roose-biography/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Roose\u003c/a>, a professional mediator who oversaw difficult BART negotiations in 2009, about BART’s bargaining strategy. He described the agency’s move as “a strong bargaining signal and it should be taken seriously by everybody involved.” He added the offer could be a prelude to even tougher action by BART:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A last best and final offer on a legal standpoint is a basis for the employer to implement terms and conditions on the unions should they be unable to reach an agreement. But it doesn’t mean that the efforts to get a tentative agreement acceptable to both sides has stopped.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On a historical note, close observers of the BART negotiations point out that BART announced a “last, best and final offer” in talks with the Amalgamated Transit Union during talks in 2009. Then, the principal dispute was over a long list of concessions the transit agency wanted from the union. The BART “final” offer prompted the ATU to issue a strike notice. But the two sides kept talking and eventually settled without an imposed contract or a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s all of Mina Kim’s conversation with Paul Roose, accompanied by a full transcript.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003c!--more-->\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F115378676&show_artwork=true&maxwidth=900\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://soundcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mina Kim:\u003c/strong> Will there be a BART strike tomorrow? That’s the question on many commuters’ minds, as yet another walkout deadline nears. BART representatives and union leaders are currently hunkered down in talks in Oakland, and details of the negotiation are thin, as both parties seem to be honoring a media blackout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talks appeared to skid to a halt yesterday, when BART General Manager Grace Crunican presented the unions with a “last, best and final offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here to help us understand the latest developments is Paul Roose, a professional mediator who oversaw BART negotiations in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Roose, “last, best and final offer” suggests that BART management is done bargaining. Yet, the two sides still seem to be talking? What should we make of that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Roose:\u003c/strong> The fact that they’re still talking is a good sign. A “last, best and final offer” on a legal standpoint is a basis for the employer to implement terms and conditions on the unions should they be unable to reach an agreement, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the efforts to get a tentative agreement acceptable to both sides has stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> I see. So it’s sort of like a shot across the bow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roose\u003c/strong>: It is a strong bargaining signal, and it should be taken seriously by everybody involved. This “last, best and final offer” is the best it’s going to get. It’s not going to get any better than that unless they can reach an agreement with the union that the union will put out and recommend a “yes” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> Few details of the final offer have emerged, but BART’s website did mention it included a 12 percent raise over four years. What are the unions’ options now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roose\u003c/strong>: The union can continue to try to keep BART in the bargaining process, and the way they can do that is to continue to move from their positions — soften some of their positions and give BART an incentive to stay in the process. The unions have also kept the strike option on the table, as everyone is concerned about. And a third option they have is to take the “last, best and final offer” — put it out to a vote of their membership without a recommendation, or with a negative recommendation — and the most likely outcome of that is that the union’s members will vote it down, and they will then go back to the bargaining table where the process will renew in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> So many people in the Bay Area, their very livelihoods rely on the transit system. 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"content": "\u003cp>Filipinos constitute the largest Asian-American population in California. Surprised? According to the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-11.pdf\">U.S. Census\u003c/a>, there are nearly 1.5 million Filipino-Americans living in the Golden State, most in Southern California and the Bay Area. It’s a fascinating story, but it doesn’t get a lot of play in our history books. San Francisco State Associate Professor of History Dawn Mabalon is keen to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the early 20th century, the center of Filipino-American life was in Stockton. Surprised about that, too? This makes sense when you consider that initially, most Filipinos crossing the Pacific came to work in the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when she was an undergraduate at UCLA, Mabalon had an Oprah-style “aha!” moment, realizing that her own family history was History, with a capital H. That diner her grandfather, Pablo Mabalon, owned for 50 years? It was a cornerstone of the Filipino community in downtown Stockton, when “Little Manila” was home to the largest population of Filipinos outside the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a personal, political and academic journey, culminating in Mabalon's new book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47141\">Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California\u003c/a>.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/little-manila-3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109458\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-109458 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Little-Manila-31.jpeg\" alt='Filipinos dressed up for photos headed back home, in order to send the message \"Doing well here in California!\" Filipinos dressed up for photos headed back home, in order to send the message \"Doing well here in California!\" (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)' width=\"410\" height=\"517\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking good sends the message \"Doing well here in California!\" (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The book really begins here,” Mabalon says, standing at the corner of Lafayette and El Dorado, outside a mini-mall that was part of an urban redevelopment scheme in the 1990s. Over the roar of a Highway 4 exit, the result of another urban redevelopment in the 1960s, Mabalon acknowledges that it’s hard to imagine this was the heart of Filipino America in the 1920s and '30s. It took her years of digging through records, photos and letters to build a picture of a world lost to all but a few people old enough to remember personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. took the Philippines as a colony in 1902, many young people made their way over the Pacific to seek their fortunes closer to the heart of the empire. Some came for a university education, only to discover professional fields were not open to “brown people” at the time. Others answered promotional campaigns promising farmers fortunes for the taking in the sugarcane fields of Hawaii. Those who tried to organize for better working conditions, once they got wise to the scam, soon found themselves unable to get hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/10-october-larry-itliong-fanhs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109207\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/10-OCTOBER-Larry-Itliong-FANHS-e1377887439189.jpg\" alt=\"School children learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about the people like Larry Itliong who started the boycott.\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California schoolchildren learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about his Filipino-American partner-in-arms, Larry Itliong. (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it was that a growing number of Filipinos began to travel a seasonal path between the agricultural heartland of California north to the salmon canneries of Alaska. They made a name for themselves as hard workers, especially cutting asparagus in the Delta. “They were considered some of the most skilled, highly efficient workers,” Mabalon says. She goes on to muse drolly that “farmers had some racist reasons why they wanted Filipinos. They said, 'Well, we’re shorter, we’re closer to the ground, and our skin is impervious to the peat dust that’s here in the Delta.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown Stockton became a community center for this peripatetic population. Mabalon says a farmworker could list her granddad’s diner as a permanent address and collect his mail there. Foremen roamed the streets, putting together crews to harvest crops like \u003ca href=\"http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ%28@FIELD%28DOCID+@LIT%28fsa2000000876/PP%29%29+@FIELD%28COLLID+fsa%29%29\">lettuce\u003c/a>, celery, tomatoes and peaches. “People would come here to find out where their cousins or relatives had gone,” Mabalon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the 1920s, this was the heart of Filipino America. You have almost 100,000 living on the West Coast on the eve of World War II.” From February through May, asparagus season in the Delta and San Joaquin Valley, you might find 15,000 Filipinos living in single-resident-occupancy hotels in Stockton, attending local churches, or hanging out at union halls, pool halls and taxi dance halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_dance_hall\">Taxi dance halls\u003c/a>? Originally developed in San Francisco, these were private clubs where taxi dancers (women) were paid to dance with patrons (men). Most Filipinos in Stockton were young men, sent by their families on the presumption they'd send money back to the hometown for a few years, then return. Thanks to segregation -- and ethnic tensions with Chinese- and Japanese-Americans -- many Filipino men found themselves hard up for a date on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a place like the Rizal Social Club (see photo), they could dress to the nines and dance with White and Mexican women. What about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws\">anti-miscegenation\u003c/a> laws? Mabalon says a club owner in those days could pay off local police to look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were Filipino bands, of course, playing all the big hits of the Jazz Age, but if they cut records, it would be news to Professor Mabalon. One tantalizing hint of that era: the great Nat King Cole took up the iconic love song \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahil_Sa_Iyo\">Dahil Sa'yo\u003c/a>,\" or \"Because of you.\" Cole wasn't the only non-Filipino to tackle the Tagalog lyrics, but I dare you to get the song out of your head after listening to this beautiful rendition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrD_FSdRzRU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they had in Hawaii, Filipinos fought against racial and economic oppression in the fields. Stockton local \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Itliong\">Larry Itliong\u003c/a> was among those who started organizing agricultural workers in the 1930s. The first major agricultural strike after World War II was an asparagus strike in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, he helped organize what was called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a>, demanding the federal minimum wage. In the past, farmers used ethnic groups against each other to crush labor actions, but this time, Mexicans under the leadership of Cesar Chavez joined the Filipinos, and the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many groups that started picking fruit and produce in California, Filipinos eventually moved up and out. After U.S. immigration laws were liberalized in 1965, many more Filipinos immigrated from the Old Country, and most of them settled in big cities on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/img_2235/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109060\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109060 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are all that's left. Professor Mabalon hopes to see these buildings restored, housing museum space that tells of the neighborhood's history.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are about all that's left of Little Manila. (Rachael Marcus/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stockton city officials built a freeway off-ramp just next to Little Manila. The neighborhood began to crumble. One by one, many of the SRO hotels were torn down. The building that housed Pablo Mabalon's diner was torn down in 1999, replaced by a McDonald's restaurant and a 76 gas station. Whatever the impetus, it's not an area most visitors would want to linger in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mabalon has big dreams for this neighborhood. She helped found the \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlemanila.org/\">Little Manila Foundation\u003c/a>, which fended off the demolition of three remaining buildings from the era. They put up street banners with photographs recalling the glory days. They got the area designated as a historic site. The Foundation hopes to restore those buildings, and set up a museum inside one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why bother? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. took the Philippines as a colony in 1902, many young people made their way over the Pacific to seek their fortunes closer to the heart of the empire. Some came for a university education, only to discover professional fields were not open to “brown people” at the time. Others answered promotional campaigns promising farmers fortunes for the taking in the sugarcane fields of Hawaii. Those who tried to organize for better working conditions, once they got wise to the scam, soon found themselves unable to get hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/10-october-larry-itliong-fanhs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109207\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/10-OCTOBER-Larry-Itliong-FANHS-e1377887439189.jpg\" alt=\"School children learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about the people like Larry Itliong who started the boycott.\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California schoolchildren learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about his Filipino-American partner-in-arms, Larry Itliong. (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it was that a growing number of Filipinos began to travel a seasonal path between the agricultural heartland of California north to the salmon canneries of Alaska. They made a name for themselves as hard workers, especially cutting asparagus in the Delta. “They were considered some of the most skilled, highly efficient workers,” Mabalon says. She goes on to muse drolly that “farmers had some racist reasons why they wanted Filipinos. They said, 'Well, we’re shorter, we’re closer to the ground, and our skin is impervious to the peat dust that’s here in the Delta.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown Stockton became a community center for this peripatetic population. Mabalon says a farmworker could list her granddad’s diner as a permanent address and collect his mail there. 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Originally developed in San Francisco, these were private clubs where taxi dancers (women) were paid to dance with patrons (men). Most Filipinos in Stockton were young men, sent by their families on the presumption they'd send money back to the hometown for a few years, then return. Thanks to segregation -- and ethnic tensions with Chinese- and Japanese-Americans -- many Filipino men found themselves hard up for a date on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a place like the Rizal Social Club (see photo), they could dress to the nines and dance with White and Mexican women. What about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws\">anti-miscegenation\u003c/a> laws? Mabalon says a club owner in those days could pay off local police to look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were Filipino bands, of course, playing all the big hits of the Jazz Age, but if they cut records, it would be news to Professor Mabalon. 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After U.S. immigration laws were liberalized in 1965, many more Filipinos immigrated from the Old Country, and most of them settled in big cities on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/img_2235/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109060\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109060 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are all that's left. Professor Mabalon hopes to see these buildings restored, housing museum space that tells of the neighborhood's history.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are about all that's left of Little Manila. 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They were later joined by other workers; the picketing grew and intensified. On July 16 the strike spread throughout the city, and became known as the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike\">San Francisco General Strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The mass protest continued over four consecutive days. Two strikers died and one was wounded in a confrontation with police on “Bloody Thursday,” when hundreds of others were clubbed and gassed. The ensuing attention from the public and government officials had an impact, as the following year, the National Labor Relations Board was created, protecting the right of workers to organize into labor unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/109172/labor-strikes-protest-Bay-Area-San-Francisco/1934strike/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109407\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/1934strike-e1377905285172.jpg\" alt=\"Scene from the 1934 dock strike in San Francisco. (Courtesy Library of Congress)\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from the 1934 dock strike in San Francisco. (Courtesy Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003c!--more-->Speaking of local worker strikes and protests, it would seem that 2013 has been a banner year, what with recent activity surrounding BART, AC Transit, the Port of Oakland, area hospital strikes, yesterday’s fast-food walkout, today's Oakland Airport strike, and much more. Doth we protest too much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“When it comes to the number of strikes, the overall numbers have been declining for years,” says Kim Voss, professor of sociology at UC Berkeley, by email, referring to\u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkstp.t01.htm\"> national figures\u003c/a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Voss notes that in recent decades number of strikes and lockouts have been “very low” compared with the 1950s, ‘60s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">However, Fred Glass, on the faculty of the Labor and Community Studies Department at San Francisco City College and communications director for the California Federation of Teachers, says that may be changing in the Bay Area, particularly as workers and unions see the impact of direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There is a spike of militancy that is occurring in the Bay Area,” Glass says. “Part of it is coincidental, because of contracts that are coming due and the actions of workers who support their contract negotiators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“But more importantly, there is a renewed willingness to use direct action. After a decline of those kinds of actions and seeing what it has brought workers - very little - there is a new willingness to engage. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/109094/rs4190_135271002-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109101\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-109101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/RS4190_135271002-scr-e1377803225714.jpg\" alt=\"Fast food workers are staging a one-day strike in the East Bay today. (Remy Gabalda / AFP / Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers are staging a one-day strike in the East Bay today. (Remy Gabalda / AFP / Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Got lunch plans today? Avoid the usual fast-food spots, at least in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers at 37 restaurants -- including McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Burger King -- are on a one-day strike. A series of protests today in Oakland is calling for an increase in fast-food workers' minimum hourly wage to $15, improved benefits and the right to form unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike affects 10 Bay Area cities: Richmond, Emeryville, Berkeley, Oakland, San Lorenzo, San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont, Union City and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rolling one-day strike movement is a national effort that began in November 2012, when the New York group Fast Food Forward and others organized a walkout. Today, workers in about 60 cities are expected to walk out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food jobs have historically been dominated by teens and youth, but protest organizers and the Center for Economic and Policy Research \u003ca href=\"http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/slow-progress-for-fast-food-workers\">point out\u003c/a> that today they're more likely to employ family breadwinners. The California Restaurant Association told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_23957927/fast-food-worker-protests-swell-bay-area\">Bay Area News Group\u003c/a> that raising wages to the $15-per-hour minimum would drive up the cost of food by a third, which would likely affect sales and result in layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/6205_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-107403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/6205_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Truck Driver J.R. Coleman talks (left, holding sign) with Michael Villeggiantes, the president of the Local 10 Longshoreman's Union. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truck driver J.R. Coleman (left, holding sign) talks with Michael Villeggiante, president of Local 10 of the longshoremen's union. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:30 p.m.\u003c/strong> From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.portofoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Port of Oakland website\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All Port of Oakland maritime facilities are now fully operational.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port staff worked throughout the morning in close collaboration with local law enforcement to maintain access to maritime facilities. Despite 10-20 protesters at four locations -- OICT East and West gates, Ports America, and the AMPCO truck parking facility -- ingress and egress was maintained at all facilities except OICT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently all protesters have cleared away from all facilities and ILWU has returned to work at OICT.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m.\u003c/strong> Isaac Kos-Reed, the port's director of external affairs, told KQED's Paul Lancour that independent truckers continued their protest this morning, showing up at a parking facility at the port, two gates at the Oakland International Container Terminal and one gate at the Ports America Terminal. Oakland police and other law enforcement were on hand to keep traffic flowing, Kos-Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, at the international terminal, ILWU labor declared unsafe conditions and stopped working, triggering an arbitration process. After the protesting truckers agreed to halt their protest, Kos-Reed said, the longshoremen went back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we reported yesterday, tension between truckers and and longshoremen has been high, with the truckers complaining about mistreatment by the latter. One protesting trucker told KQED that \"they don't give us the dignity we deserve. They pretty much treat us like trash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lytle, the port's executive director, told KQED that the reported abuse is \"certainly a real issue.\" He said he and senior terminal officials met with drivers last week, telling them that they should seek out terminal management if they felt they were being mistreated, rather than get into an altercation. Lytle said the truckers at the time were satisfied with that solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue that the independent operators are upset about: long \"turn\" times at the port -- truckers have complained about waiting up to eight hours to pick or up deliver goods. The independents are paid by the load and say the backlog has cost them thousands of dollars. Both the port and truckers have blamed the backlog on a transition among port operators last month that combined three separately run terminals into one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23827284/oakland-port-struggles-solve-cargo-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">reported by the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> earlier this month, the backlog has occurred at the terminal controlled by SSA Terminals. From the Trib ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ILWU Local 10 President Mike Villeggiante laid the blame squarely on SSA, which last month took control of the affected terminal complex. He said the company took two berths out of operation at a time when cargo volumes have increased.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Chris Lytle, the port's executive director, told KQED's Julia McEvoy that the amount of time it takes to complete a load has been steadily improving, hitting just about an hour on Friday. He said that on Thursday and Friday, the terminal logged 4,700 gate moves. \"That's as busy as almost any terminal in the country gets,\" he said. \"You can't do that and have each move take six to seven hours. \u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re thinking back to the way it was two and three weeks ago,\" Lytle said, \"and not the way it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa Times has a good \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_23892956/port-oakland-truckers-block-berths-protest-slow-turnaround\" target=\"_blank\">report on the dispute\u003c/a>, adding this wrinkle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Making matters worse, truckers aren't allowed to leave their trucks once in line at the terminals because of safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers caught outside their trucks are levied $50 fines, (trucker Cesar) Parra said ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers said they outlined their complaints in a letter last week to Mayor Jean Quan, but nobody from the mayor's office had responded. The port's executive director, Chris Lytle, met with truckers Monday to discuss their concerns.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 9:50 a.m.\u003c/strong> Ted Goldberg of KCBS Radio is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting on the port protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 8:10 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Protesters have returned to the Port of Oakland this morning. Oakland police at each entrance to SSA to help clear pathway for drivers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— OT511 (@OaklandOT511) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OaklandOT511/statuses/369816042706456577\">August 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We have a call out to the port now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6 p.m\u003c/strong>. From the port's website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Protest activities in the Port area have subsided for the day but may resume tomorrow. The Port is meeting with protesters to hear their concerns as well as share the concerns of the Port and its customers. Tomorrow, Oakland Police will again be in the Port area to actively maintain access to all terminal gates throughout the day. As of 5:00 pm today, the Port understands that all the terminals intend to be open for normal business tomorrow.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> All but one of the five terminals at the port were able to conduct at least some type of operation today, but the situation was \"fluid\" and sometimes terminals were closed and sometimes they were open, according to port spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur. At one point all the terminal gates were blocked by protesting truckers, but Oakland police later came to the scene to make sure that trucks could get in and out of the terminals, Sandifur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> From the Port of Oakland website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Please be advised that protest activities affected maritime operations at Port terminals this morning. While this situation remains fluid this afternoon, Oakland Police is in the Port area and is working on keeping gates to marine terminals accessible. Gate access is available for PAOH, TraPac, Ben E. Nutter and Howard terminals. OICT gates are closed for the rest of the day. We will keep you updated as additional information becomes available.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:25 p.m. \u003c/strong>The port now says Oakland police are on the scene to ensure that the terminal opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:45 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Chase Thomas reports that there are now 20-25 protesting truckers, on foot, still blocking the terminal. He says their main complaint is mistreatment by port workers. More on that below ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 50 independent truckers, frustrated with a backlog at the Port of Oakland and what they say is mistreatment by port workers, are blocking at least one entrance to the facility this morning. A spokesperson for the port says one terminal is closed. She said three other terminals are \"intending to do business today\" and that the situation is \"fluid.\" The port is the fifth largest in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truckers have said they've waited up to eight hours to pick or up deliver goods. Truckers are paid by the load and say the backlog has cost them thousands of dollars. Both the port and truckers have blamed the backlog on a transition among port operators last month that combined three separately run terminals into one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23827284/oakland-port-struggles-solve-cargo-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">reported by the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> earlier this month, the backlog has occurred at the terminal controlled by SSA Terminals. From the Trib ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ILWU Local 10 President Mike Villeggiante laid the blame squarely on SSA, which last month took control of the affected terminal complex. He said the company took two berths out of operation at a time when cargo volumes have increased.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Chris Lytle, the port's executive director, told KQED's Julia McEvoy this morning that the \"turn time,\" how long it takes a trucker to complete a load and leave, has been steadily improving, hitting just about an hour on Friday. He said that on Thursday and Friday, the terminal logged 4,700 gate moves. \"That's as busy as almost any terminal in the country gets,\" he said. \"You can't do that and have each move take six to seven hours. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re thinking back to the way it was two and three weeks ago,\" Lytle said, \"and not the way it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lytle confirmed that truckers were also mad about what they describe as abusive longshoremen at the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, it’s certainly a real issue,\" he said. He said he and senior terminal officials met with drivers last week, telling them that they should seek out terminal management if they felt they were being mistreated, rather than get into an altercation. Lytle said the truckers were satisfied with that solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But protesting trucker Jorge Esparza told KQED's Deb Svoboda today that \"we're only a number, and they mistreat us. They don't give us the dignity we deserve. They pretty much treat us like trash.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said it's been taking him as long as 7½ hours to pick up a load, and that truckers have been losing their trucks because of the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another trucker, J.R. Coleman, said the waits have been two to seven hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lytle said the protest would be counterproductive. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue that the independent operators are upset about: long \"turn\" times at the port -- truckers have complained about waiting up to eight hours to pick or up deliver goods. The independents are paid by the load and say the backlog has cost them thousands of dollars. Both the port and truckers have blamed the backlog on a transition among port operators last month that combined three separately run terminals into one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23827284/oakland-port-struggles-solve-cargo-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">reported by the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> earlier this month, the backlog has occurred at the terminal controlled by SSA Terminals. From the Trib ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ILWU Local 10 President Mike Villeggiante laid the blame squarely on SSA, which last month took control of the affected terminal complex. He said the company took two berths out of operation at a time when cargo volumes have increased.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Chris Lytle, the port's executive director, told KQED's Julia McEvoy that the amount of time it takes to complete a load has been steadily improving, hitting just about an hour on Friday. He said that on Thursday and Friday, the terminal logged 4,700 gate moves. \"That's as busy as almost any terminal in the country gets,\" he said. \"You can't do that and have each move take six to seven hours. \u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re thinking back to the way it was two and three weeks ago,\" Lytle said, \"and not the way it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Contra Costa Times has a good \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_23892956/port-oakland-truckers-block-berths-protest-slow-turnaround\" target=\"_blank\">report on the dispute\u003c/a>, adding this wrinkle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Making matters worse, truckers aren't allowed to leave their trucks once in line at the terminals because of safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers caught outside their trucks are levied $50 fines, (trucker Cesar) Parra said ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers said they outlined their complaints in a letter last week to Mayor Jean Quan, but nobody from the mayor's office had responded. The port's executive director, Chris Lytle, met with truckers Monday to discuss their concerns.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 9:50 a.m.\u003c/strong> Ted Goldberg of KCBS Radio is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting on the port protest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 8:10 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Protesters have returned to the Port of Oakland this morning. Oakland police at each entrance to SSA to help clear pathway for drivers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— OT511 (@OaklandOT511) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OaklandOT511/statuses/369816042706456577\">August 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We have a call out to the port now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6 p.m\u003c/strong>. From the port's website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Protest activities in the Port area have subsided for the day but may resume tomorrow. The Port is meeting with protesters to hear their concerns as well as share the concerns of the Port and its customers. Tomorrow, Oakland Police will again be in the Port area to actively maintain access to all terminal gates throughout the day. As of 5:00 pm today, the Port understands that all the terminals intend to be open for normal business tomorrow.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> All but one of the five terminals at the port were able to conduct at least some type of operation today, but the situation was \"fluid\" and sometimes terminals were closed and sometimes they were open, according to port spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur. At one point all the terminal gates were blocked by protesting truckers, but Oakland police later came to the scene to make sure that trucks could get in and out of the terminals, Sandifur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> From the Port of Oakland website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Please be advised that protest activities affected maritime operations at Port terminals this morning. While this situation remains fluid this afternoon, Oakland Police is in the Port area and is working on keeping gates to marine terminals accessible. Gate access is available for PAOH, TraPac, Ben E. Nutter and Howard terminals. OICT gates are closed for the rest of the day. 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