Plaza, were seeing speeds back up and the backup is over the west grant overcrossing in the cash lanes that lanes that is a check of traffic. City of oakland bracing for a major shut down as thousands of city workers plan to strike. Important City Services that resident they may not be able to access today. Thousands of employees are getting ready to walk off the job. Workers from local 1021 and ifp local 21 represent a range of roles from Public Workers to head start instructors from engineers to building inspectors. Union workers say after seven months of negotiation, they had no choice but to strike. We give them every opportunity to keep us open and they chose not to take it. Main point of contract talks is cost of living increases. The city made a two year offer and the first year of their offer is virtually identical to our one year offer. We said why cant we agree on the year we agree on and come back and talk about the future, and they said no. If we agree to pay more than the