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Monday, August 19, 2013

BART MANAGERS GET RICH WHILE ATTACKING THE UNION

And just like Trimet: 

Union leaders, defending requests for double-digit percentage pay increases, fire back that managers have been lining their own pockets generously while asking workers to pay more toward health care and pension benefits.
"Who knows what they can come up with?" said Antonette Bryant, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, which represents train operators and station agents. "We find out when it comes out after the fact what kind of deals they make for themselves, not before." 
Critics inside and outside the unions say BART's managers find other ways to pad their wallets, such as sometimes vesting earlier than union workers do in the system's health care plan so they can leave early with lifetime benefits. Or pulling down large amounts of severance pay, like the $1 million that former BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger walked away with when she was fired in 2011.

BART managers, like unions, among best compensated - SFGate

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