.BART Workers Want 3 Percent Raise

While workers throughout California are taking pay cuts or being laid off because of the economic crisis, BART train operators and station agents are demanding a 3 percent raise over the next two years, according to the Chron. Those BART workers, along with another BART union, also have voted to sanction a strike, the paper reported. In other words, BART workers have just won the award for being both the greediest and ballsiest public employees in the state.