The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has filed a legal complaint over the ongoing VTA workers' strike as the labor action entered its second day in the South Bay.

VTA’s final contract offer to workers last week included a wage increase of 9% over three years, keeping the employees as the second-highest paid in the Bay Area and the fifth-highest paid in the country. VTA is also asking the union to allow the long-term leave to be decreased from two years to one year, and to change the structure of holiday pay.

Both the transit agency and the union say they are open to returning to negotiations, but no meetings have been set.

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail and bus service is shut down Monday as more than 1,500 front line employees have gone on strike.

The Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) operators’ union is responding after the transit agency went to court trying to get striking drivers back to work. The union was on the third day of its strike on Wednesday over a new contract,