ORINDA (CBS SF) — With the threat of another BART strike looming, an Orinda city councilman is pushing for legislation to ban transit workers from walking off the job.

Councilman Steve Glazer, a candidate for state Assembly and longtime advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown, launched a petition Thursday in favor of prohibiting transit worker strikes statewide.

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Orinda City Councilman Steve Glazer has announced a petition calling for a ban that would prohibit public transit workers from striking, including BART strikes. Steve Glazer joined us Saturday morning, Sept. 28, to talk about his petition.

Strike stress: Orinda City Councilman and Democratic state Assembly candidate Steve Glazer got a little more attention than he bargained for the other morning when he was canvassing commuters on the idea of banning public transit workers from striking.

As the TV cameras covering the event at the Orinda Station were packing up, an off-duty BART worker joined in the debate, repeatedly interrupting Glazer as he was talking to riders.

When a Glazer supporter pulled out his cell phone to record the encounter, the worker grabbed it - then gave it back.

A newspaper vendor called BART police, and when they arrived, the BART worker charged that Glazer had stepped on his foot.

A BART supervisor was summoned to the station, and the employee was taken to John Muir Medical Center for treatment of "anxiety issues."

A little while later, Glazer was having coffee in the nearby Europa Hofbrau when another BART worker came up to his table and told him, "Every union is going to come out against you - you have sealed the nails on your coffin."

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ORINDA, Calif. — With the threat of another BART strike looming, an Orinda city councilman is pushing for legislation to ban transit workers from walking off the job.

Councilman Steve Glazer, a candidate for state Assembly and longtime advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown, launched a petition Thursday in favor of prohibiting transit worker strikes statewide.

He held a petition drive at the Orinda BART station Thursday morning and was also handing out fliers at the Lafayette station during the evening commute.

ORINDA, Calif. (KGO) -- A Bay Area Democrat says there ought to be a law banning public transit workers from striking in California. A local politician handed out flyers Thursday morning to encourage passengers to sign his online petition banning BART strikes, but not everyone is on board with the idea.

Orinda City Councilman Steve Glazer says he's looking out for the average Joe, caught in the middle of the negotiations between BART management and its unions.

With a BART strike looming which could gridlock the Bay Area and affect some 400,000 riders, Democrat Steve Glazer – a candidate for State Assembly — has become the first elected official in the area to back state legislation that would ban public transit workers from striking.

Glazer, a member of the Orinda City Council for nine years, announced the position Monday on his website for his campaign for the seat in the 16th Assembly District, which stretches from Orinda to Pleasanton and Dublin. He’s also been a longtime and close adviser to Gov. Jerry Brown, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system.

Heading east from San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley through the Caldecott tunnel are the sundrenched suburban communities of the East Bay.  The 16^th Assembly District lies here, which has been represented by Democrat Joan Buchanan.  Buchanan was able to wrestle this district from Republicans in 2008, giving Democrats control of every single Legislative and Congressional District in the Bay Area.

Its no surprise this was the last district to fall to Democrats.  The San Ramon Valley, which includes the communities of Danville, San Ramon and Alamo still remains the most conservative area in the Bay Area, but overall voters in the district are decidedly moderate.

This race has intrigued the Capitol because a major Democratic contender is Steve Glazer, the veteran political consultant who engineered Gov. Brown’s 2010 election victory but has since run into serious trouble with organized labor for his work on a pro-business PAC.

"One of [Jerry] Brown's top advisers, Orinda City Councilman Steve Glazer, dominates the fundraising race for an open East Bay 16th Assembly District seat. Glazer, a Democrat, reported $245,000 in donations in the first half of 2013, records show, with $236,000 for the primary election June 3.

"That's twice that of Glazer's nearest competitor, Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti, who raised $112,000 and ended with $100,000, records show."

Orinda mayor and gubernatorial adviser Steve Glazer filed papers Tuesday to run for the 16th Assembly District as the first official candidate in the 2014 election. The district includes parts of Contra Costa and Alameda counties and is currently run by Joan Buchanan, who will term out in 2014. 

Glazer, a two-term mayor and California State University Trustee, said his connections and experience on city council, as an advisor to the governor and an advocate for higher education will make him a formidable candidate. 

Gov. Jerry Brown's political adviser, Steve Glazer, will run for a state Assembly seat in 2014, Glazer announced this morning.