After two years of bargaining, numerous picket lines and a strike, the union representing Alcatraz ferry workers reached a tentative agreement on their first contract this week.
The agreement would raise the Alcatraz workers’ salaries to be in line with other captains, boathands, maintenance supervisors, and other ferry workers on boats across the Bay Area, according to the union.
The union, Alcatraz Workers United, represents workers for the sole provider of ferries to Alcatraz Island and was officially certified in October 2022. In January 2023, it kicked off the contract bargaining process with Alcatraz City Cruises…