Re: Tentative agreement updates - KTVU Update
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 10-23-2013 - 12:01
fkrock Wrote:
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> Part of the reason for high BART operator salaries
> is historic. When BART began operating several bus
> routes were abandoned. BART was required to hire
> the laid off bus drivers and pay all the highest
> salary received by any of the drivers. Thus BART
> operators began with fairly high salaries. My
> memory is that one very small bus company had paid
> high wages to their drivers.
Good point.
Quite a few Southern Pacific employees in the Bay Area left the railroad and went over to BART. They did so because of the higher wages and better benefits.