https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/12/02/editorial-bart-cannot-afford-reckless-pandemic-labor-deal/ > It’s mind-boggling that BART directors plan to ratify on Thursday a new labor agreement that locks in excessive employee benefits for another three years at the same time the district faces horrendous budget shortfalls. > The deal, which would last through June 30, 2024, would continue the sweetheart terms of a contract reached in 2013 after a strike shut down the system. Those terms were renewed with a contract extension in 2016. Now, with that extension due to expire next year, the district and its union workers have agreed to another.