Directors illegally broke an agreement on a new contract. Mark kelly is live at the courthouse with the very latest developments. Mark . Reporter well, michelle, this lawsuit makes three major claims. One, bart cant take back the total package agreement without good cause. And the unions say calling one part of that agreement a mistake is not good cause. Claim 2 bart must execute the final agreement and claim 3, bart cant snip out one part of the agreement and essentially say no negotiating just take it or leave it. So heres a little background on this whole thing. The uproar has been over paid family leave. November 21, the bart board instructed management that paid family leave is costly. So they said first, get the family leave provision out of the contract. Then and only then could they sign the contract saying it being in the final deal was a mistake. No surprise that is not sitting well with the unions. Sei and atu say this only prolongs labor negotiations. Plus management and un
Comment about her or the other challengers. She did however say i have not yet announced my reelection plans and im focused on my priorities as mayor. Oakland is looking for competent strong leadership. Im very excited about campaigning. Reporter it going to be an interesting year. The question is, of course, how many other people will jump in this race . Oakland is still a prize the city new states and somebody else could join us. Oakland uses rank choice voting. How do you think thats going to come into play . Reporter thats the big question. San francisco uses it, too. It gives voters a choice of three candidates out of the gate and then you stack up. Those votes tran fer to the other two quan got in by saying anybody but perata but in this race the rumblings are will be but kiwanis race. Also tonight stay lawmakers are defending a decision to accept pay raises starting today they are getting a pay raise of more than 5 . That pushes their base pay up to 95,000. Its their first pay r
Westbound 580 traffic though no delay yet through the livermore valley. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. For more on this cold weather heres lawrence. Back to wintry weather here in the bay area after some recordbreaking warm temperatures over the weekend. Here we go starting out with a few showers this morning. Out the door on our hidef Doppler Radar, you can see most of that located in the south bay along the peninsula. Those showers will sweep out of town. Rain is not the major concern today. It will be those cold temperatures developing outside. Right now we have some cloudy skies some scattered showers. The temperatures holding mainly in the 50s right now but you know what . Its not going to get much warmer than that. In fact, were looking at a very cold night tonight into tomorrow morning. Freeze watches are going up for tonight through thursday. Thats when were expecting the skies to clear out and these temperatures are going to plummet down into the 20s and 30s around most of th
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