Finding F20
BART’s five collective bargaining agreements have provisions that require minimum staffing levels tied to physical locations rather than service levels, and workforce protections that establish terms that can be expanded through bargaining but require further negotiation to modify.
Jury report: BART at a Crossroads: Structural Deficit, Governance Accountability, and the Choices Ahead · PDF page 23
Permanent linkOfficial response
BART Board of Directors
Partially disagrees: only ATU has location-based minimums, covering about 11% of workforce; train operators have no minimum.
Read official response · PDF page 6Identifies accepted negotiability and disputed breadth with a named agreement and classification-specific explanation.
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