Take-out pizzas, spending sprees at the Apple store and a $1,600 "team-building" trip to Angel Island are the latest bullets being fired at BART by unions upset over the transit system's attempts to solve its $250 million budget problem in part by cutting back on worker benefits.

BART credit card bills show that over the past year, top management and staff spent:

-- $27,000 for take-out food and catering.

-- $18,570 at the Emeryville Apple store.

-- $1,500 at the REI outdoor-gear store.

-- $1,629 for a tour of Angel Island.

"The district has a budget problem, but part of the problem stems from people at the top making poor decisions," said Jean Hamilton, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union local that represents BART supervisors and middle managers.

BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the credit card attack was just another "attempt to deflect attention from our efforts to find $100 million in savings."

The union's spending slam comes hot on the heels of BART's own opening salvo, a Web site that highlights worker pay and benefits. The BART site takes a swipe at some of the system's more bizarre work rules - such as the one that requires two workers to change one train seat one to snap the seat snaps, the other to turn the screws.

As for the specific spending that the union is criticizing, BART says:

-- Some of the pizzas and other food were for union workers handling after-hours emergency work.

-- The REI spending was for bright yellow, all-weather jackets that BART's public information officers wear for outdoor media events in the rain.