Negotiations with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 265, which represents about 1,500 transit workers, remain unresolved.

Almost half a year into the dispute, eight striking Kaiser mental health workers wrapped up a hunger strike as broken-off negotiations were set to resume.

The union and the transit agency have not resumed negotiations on a new contract. The former contract expired March 10 without a contract agreement, prompting workers to strike.

Rides must begin and end at a VTA bus or light rail stop, and must be ordered on Uber’s mobile app.  

That means the strike that has suspended bus and light train rides for 100,000 commuters since March 10 will continue.

The Valley Transportation Authority is hopeful its offer of more pay and improved benefits will end the regional transit strike.

The court decision Monday wasn’t the only rejection that hit the transit agency. Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a request from the VTA to intervene in the labor dispute and asked the two sides to resume negotiations on a three-year contract.

Representatives from both sides met Monday, but neither side budged from bargaining positions for a new three-year contract that remained far apart, with no new conversations scheduled.

The growing strike may complicate matters for the more than 169,000 undergraduate students at six campuses as they wrap up instruction and take final exams.

Nurses will receive a 15% raise over four years, including a total 6.5% raise in 2024, if the Board of Supervisors approves the tentative agreement on June 4.

The nurses' union says county management failed to bargain in good faith around working conditions and safety issues that impact nurses and patient care.

The Registered Nurses Professional Association said 97% of its members – whose contract expired Oct. 29 – voted to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached on union demands for better working conditions, pay raises and improved benefits.

The faculty union had sought a 12% raise, but instead settled Monday on one 5% raise retroactive to July 1, 2023, and another to begin this July 1.

After months of negotiations, university officials and the faculty union remain far apart on key contract terms. Cal State provided a 5% general raise; the union wants 12% this year.

The strike in the first week of a new semester could be called off if both sides reach an agreement in contract talks Jan. 8-12, the union said.

More than 4,000 state scientists who are staging a three-day strike this week have worked under an expired contract for three years.