| The sixty-day cooling off period in the BART dispute has resulted in a temporary break in contract negotiations -- we don't yet know when the parties will meet again -- but it is less likely to end BART management's relentless P.R. campaign against its own employees. If one believes BART management's media campaign, the problem at the heart of the contract dispute is straightforward: its employees are overpaid, greedy, strike happy, inflexible, uneducated, and unworthy of middle-class wages and benefits. The truth is considerably more complicated. |




