After a four and a half day strike, relief for the 400,000 daily riders of the Bay Area Rapid
Transit system. Trains began rolling today at 3pm. SEIU Local 10-21 and ATU Local 15-55 called for a strike on Monday after negotiations with BART failed to produce a new contract.
The California Labor Secretary and state mediators encouraged the unions to end the strike and for the two parties to return to the table and work towards a settlement after both unions and BART managers agreed to a 30-day extension of the expired union contracts.
Arielle Zionts reports: