The report asserts that under current revenue conditions, a Valley transit zone would achieve a $ 11 . 4 million surplus in 10 years.
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The new law keeps workers'collective bargaining agreements intact for at least four years if the MTA decides to split up into smaller transit zones.
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Davis has until Sept . 30 to sign a bill that would protect those workers'jobs by requiring the new transit zone to hire them.
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Transit zone supporters have suspended their planning efforts, saying the work rule issues and legislation make a separate bus agency under local control economically unworkable.
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In the early phase of the war, this border district functioned as host for a large number of internally displaced persons and transit zones for refugees.
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The unions defend the work rules and have made imposing the MTA contracts on the proposed Valley transit zone the key issue they will strike over.
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Bargaining broke down Friday night over issues including overtime pay, cost-cutting measures and proposed autonomous transit zones such as one proposed for the San Fernando Valley.
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The area's caves and high mountain passes were once a stronghold and transit zone for Islamic militants fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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Now the San Fernando Valley Transit Zone Interim Joint Powers Authority, representing communities from Glendale to Calabasas, has positioned itself to run as its own service.
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Union leaders accused the MTA of stalling negotiations to consult with San Fernando Valley and San Gabriel Valley leaders who are pushing for autonomous transit zones.
