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Soli Alpert is running with the Right to Housing Slate to secure a second term on Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.

At its upcoming Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council will vote on a consent item that, if passed, will increase the minimum remote overtime pay for city employees in the information technology, or IT, department.

Both unions, which represent more than 3,000 Oakland workers cumulatively, according to the press release, alleged that workers have received threats to their jobs because of their support of an alternative to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s budget.

Roughly 20 people gathered on the front steps of the Berkeley Public Library on Tuesday afternoon to protest the alleged termination of Berkeley Public Library staff for revealing the extent to which the library had reduced its collections.

In light of the death of two BART workers last year, the state division of occupational safety and health, or Cal/OSHA, has fined Bay Area Rapid Transit $210,000 for three “willful and serious” violations of worker safety.

BART and labor unions met Monday to discuss the costs of a medical leave proposal in the contract they agreed upon earlier this month, following BART’s statement on Friday that it intends to return to the bargaining table to review this provision.

BART officials and unions reached a tentative agreement late Monday evening, bringing a four day strike to a close and returning the daily commute of about 400,000 riders back to normal.

Unions representing BART employees continued to negotiate with BART management late into Wednesday night, failing to come to an agreement as of press time but temporarily averting a transportation logjam that would have forced about 400,000 Bay Area commuters to find alternative transportation on Thursday.

Although BART management and labor unions failed to reach an agreement Thursday night, union leadership agreed to extend talks, narrowly averting what would have been this year's second BART strike.