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One thing is clear in the contract dispute between BART workers and management, the taxpayers are the losers. Given the “skills” required (not including the mechanics who maintain the trains and tracks); station agents and train drivers (chaperones may be a better term because the computers control the trains) are richly compensated with lavish benefit […]

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