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Actually, the high salaried employees you see are people like the General Manager who refuse to personally come to the bargaining table at all, and probably app
by justizin 13y ago
Actually, the high salaried employees you see are people like the General Manager who refuse to personally come to the bargaining table at all, and probably approve raises for themselves.
The average salary of striking workers is about $61k, and management has accepted that their current offer only results in a substantive increase of $1 over four years, after BART workers accepted a freeze four years ago to inject $100M into the system.
More info:
http://www.keepbartrunning.com/an_open_letter_to_the_community_from_the_bart_workers
- peter_l_downs 13y agoTry looking at one of the later pages in the document -- average salary is around 30k! I believe your numbers for sure, just wanted to offer a clean example of "no, not everyone gets paid 80k base + 120k overtime." http://imgur.com/2vfQ1qi http://imgur.com/2vfQ1qi, from http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Area%20Rapid%20Transit&appSession=31916186704428&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=2&CPIpage=1&cbJumpTo=123 http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Ar...
- tlogan 13y agoOk - for car cleaning you get $55K/year (plus full benefits). Is that a lot or too little? I don't know.. nurses I know don't earn much more in Bay Area but I might be hanging out with wrong people...
- jholman 13y agoNitpick: That $55k includes benefits, actually. That's $35k base, a little OT, a few weeks of vacation, M/D/V benefits, and pension contributions. I'd call that "$35k plus full benefits" if I was summarizing. Maybe "plus great benefits" if you wanted to slant it (I dunno if those MDV costs are high or low, though). Betcha the nurses you know are making more than that.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThat leave sout some pertinent information. Unlike many other employees in the private and public sector, BART employees make no pension contributions. I think a salary increase identical to a (new) mandatory pension contribution is a substantive increase, just a deferred one. There are also performance-related bonuses on offer. Average salary does not tell use a whole lot, and omits salient facts like additional earnings from overtime.
- bobo13579 13y agoThe average pay for a Bay Area worker is $65K. That worker is a professional with a college degree. Why does unskilled transit work deserve so much pay?
- apineda 13y agoThey provide a great service to people like you and I who use their transport, washrooms etc. If they were not paid well they would not do their jobs and the BART system would be in disarray. They deserve pay increases just like everyone else.
- jonsterling 13y agoClearly you have never used a BART washroom, my friend. Though, the confusion is understandable, since BART stations tend to smell like washrooms outside the washrooms too. Tell me more about what a good job BART employees do.
- dunham 13y agoBART has public washrooms? I thought they were all closed to the public. (I've only been in a handful of stations, and don't usually check out the washrooms, but I believe the montgomery street one has a sign on the door to that effect.)
- malandrew 13y agoI was under the impression that many of them were closed after 9-11. I was told by a BART employee that that is why the Berkeley BART bathroom has been closed for years.
- jonsterling 13y agoThere's an open one in Rockridge BART at least. Now that I think of it, that's the only station I've been in that has a bathroom.
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