| SF Transit Workers Reject Concessions |
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| Written by UCPA |
| Monday, 22 February 2010 06:03 |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 — By a 60-percent margin, transit workers at MUNI, the city’s municipal public transit agency, have voted down a massive concessionary contract. The deal called for wage freezes, higher worker contributions to their pensions and changes to overtime rules that would cost them $15 million over the next two years. MUNI bosses wanted the workers to pay for the agency’s $16.9 million deficit. The deal was brokered by union officials with MUNI and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to get around mandated wage and benefit provisions written in the City Charter. |
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