Article: As Strike Looms, San Francisco Bay Area Transit Talks Continue.

By Alexis Chiu, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 23--Marathon negotiations between BART and its professional employees union continued all day Monday and into the evening as the strike deadline -- 12:01 a.m. today -- threatened to strand Bay Area commuters.

BART and Local 3993 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees -- the smallest of the transit system's unions, representing 238 workers -- were unable to reach a compromise during a weekend of talks.

A strike could cripple transit service throughout the region because leaders of BART's other unions have said they will honor ...

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