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Negotiations continue, but both sides say they are far apart on terms for a new deal.
As a midnight deadline loomed Thursday, unions representing 2,824 Bay Area Rapid Transit workers said there was no new contract agreement yet and signaled that a strike was possible — but labor leaders promised BART riders that it would not occur on Friday.
BART negotiators stay at table; end of contract extension looms but unions say strike is not imminent
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Representatives from BART's two largest unions said late Thursday, with 45 minutes left before their midnight deadline to reach agreement on new contracts, that they are prepared to take management's latest offer to their membership sometime next week....
A midnight deadline looms on a Bay Area Rapid Transport labor deal.
BART's two largest unions said this afternoon that they will not strike on Friday, even if they do not have new contracts in place by tonight's midnight deadline. The two sides continued to negotiate and planned to do so well into the night. Last month...
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BART offers the unions a proposal to vote on; BART strikes not likely for the weekend.
The unemployment rate in the United States rose to 9.5% in June 2009 from 3.6% in October 2000 and 4.1% in October 2006. Most puzzling, as indicated in the chart below, has been the obvious failure of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's unprecedented aggressive monetary policy to produce the quick economic recovery that he promised at each interest rate cut.
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