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Golden Gate Ferry Captains Stage One-Day Labor Strike

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The Golden Gate passenger ferry system, California’s largest, was shut down on Friday by striking boat captains, disrupting service for thousands of San Francisco Bay-area commuters in a wider labor dispute over wages and benefits for transit workers. The 20 ferry pilots who work for the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District walked off the job for the day to protest what union officials have criticized as bad-faith contract bargaining on the part of management. The Golden Gate service operates five ferries making 42 crossings a day – carrying roughly 8,500 passengers – between San Francisco and the Marin County communities of Sausalito and Larkspur on the north side of the bay. With no one else available to pilot the vessels while the union captains stage their first ever labor strike, the ferry system will be closed until Saturday morning, the district said. The shutdown includes service that had been scheduled for the San Francisco Giants baseball game on Friday night at AT&T Park. http://gcaptain.com/golden-gate-ferry-captains-stage-one-day-labor-strike/