Their kids off at school as wells. Despite the headaches, im jon kelley. Im marla tellez. Lets go live to kristy who is out there with more. Reporter good morning. When i got to the bart station at 2 00 a. M. , the workers were already on the picket line. This station here is closed because of the strike. Heres whats happening here as the director here is speaking to the media right now. Im going to step aside so you can listen in to what hes saying. We agreed to lower our request for a wage increase. Progress is being mad and we are substantially close to reaching an agreement, but in the last part of the bargaining, bart sort of hit a switch. They came up with a poison pill to say, yes, we have reached a concept on economics, which was a main reason earlier, but now we have to change contracts and work rules and need substantive changes to affect the daily workers before we can get and agreement with them. At that point the bargaining broke down. These work rules protect workers. If
Athletes career end because of a con sugs cushion. It happened to steve young. There was a burial helmet hit. That hit was recorded by a special mount guard like this. The zeatd being included in Research Conducted by 49er medical director dan garza and Research Assistant at stanford university. They showed me some head Impact Research from a different player during a game. They are pointing not necessarily where they are hit but where the acceleration. The n. F. L. Is planning a tenyear study on the consequences of repeated head injuries. We want to have a way to understand how to measure the impacts that occur, not just from the concussions that you see happening, but from what we call the sub concussive events. Cheryl the doctor is chair of Neurology Department at ucsf and Advisory Committee to the n. F. L. He is working with john york coowner of the 49ers who was on the safety committee. They the tell me the n. F. L. Is getting closer to find the best way to Gather Research on impa
Must make alternative plans. Tomorrows strike could be called off before the midnight deadline. Dont hold your breath, by all accounts a strike is imminent and the more pressing question, how long will it last . Good evening. Good evening, and tonight, for the First Time Since sunday. Union leaders and b. A. R. T. Officials have no plans to continue negotiations here at the caltrans building. Talks broke down late this evening. Both sides came out here tonight, blaming one another and the federal mediator he had is he is going home said he is going home. As it stands, the strike is on and b. A. R. T. Riders will not have trains tomorrow. Im very disappointed. I ride b. A. R. T. Every day and im sick and tired of it. Reporter b. A. R. T. Riders are frustrated that trains will not run on friday. Patrice is so tired of the uncertainty during the labor negotiations, she gave up on b. A. R. T. And started riding the ferry. Im tired of the threat, im just tired. Reporter the Union Leaders de
Were able to better manage. Reporter at the last minute, the union says they asked for an arbitrator to decide the issues and bart management declined. Soliz and ken, im told the trains will actually run their routes through the night and then stop before tomorrow mornings commute. These people are mad at each other, brian. I dont think they will be working it out tonight. Brian webb in oakland, thank you. Ryan takeo is in berkeley where bart riders are just now hearing about the strike. Ryan . Reporter elizabeth, we have been here since around 4 00. We have told a lot of people, talked to several people, broke into us to them. Commuters on the way back home here at the ashby station, we talked to a lot of people. Most are angry and trying to figure out what their backup plan is for tomorrow but one person really stuck out to me. She said she is glad she knows now that a strike is likely instead of finding out at 10 00 or midnight. She said she has been checking her phone all night all
With the trains silent and our workers on strike due to the inability to reach an agreement with the bart district at the collective bargaining table. Most of you know in the last week, we have had intensive bargaining thats featured a federal mediator from washington, d. C. And the last bargaining session we had was a marathon. It was 28, almost 30 hours of bargaining. We really thought we were going to reach an agreement. Uhm the union had moved a lot off its positions on economic issues. We had moved to barts position on pensions. We had moved to barts position we had moved to barts position on healthcare costs. We had agreed to lower our request for a wage increase. Progress was being made. We were substantially close to reaching agreement. But in the last minute, in the last part of the bargaining, bart sort of did what we call a switch. They came up with a poison pill to say yes, we have reached in concept agreement on economics, which was the main issues earlier that bart was fo