Orange County Supervisors Direct Negotiator on New Deal; Teamsters to Vote Saturday, Strike Lines Pulled, Ratification Not Before December 1
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Friday gave direction to its negotiator following a closed-door meeting on a new labor contract with the union representing waste and public works employees that would end their strike. Members of Teamsters Joint Council 42 were set to vote on the new deal from the county on Saturday.
The special meeting on Friday nearly ended without a closed session. Board Chairman Doug Chaffee moved to cancel the special meeting, but a majority of the board voted to go forward with it. Chaffee then moved to remove the closed-session agenda item on labor negotiations, leaving Vice Chair Katrina Foley to preside over the meeting. Foley moved to put the labor negotiations back on the agenda so supervisors could meet privately to consider whether to approve the new proposed deal. County counsel Leon Page explained that an emergency existed, which was the main argument for the county's attempt to seek a temporary restraining order curtailing how the Teamsters were picketing at the county's landfills; a hearing on the application set for Friday was rescheduled for Monday. Page noted a recent fire at a transfer station in Santa Ana that local haulers use before taking garbage to a county landfill, said transfer stations are not prepared for long-term storage of waste such as batteries that could ignite, and said mounting trash could create vectors for disease and vermin.
Foley told City News Service that the union has pulled its strike lines and will vote on the new proposal on Saturday. She said the agreement cannot be ratified before December 1 because it must be posted for eight days. Foley said the strike lines are down while the vote is awaited, that the strike was impacting public safety and people's livelihoods ahead of Thanksgiving weekend trash collection, that many union members will now be available to help with the expected winter storms, and that small business waste haulers have been significantly hurt by the strike. Chaffee told City News Service he could not attend Friday's meeting because of schedule conflicts, and expressed concern about the cost of the new proposal, saying other unions are likely to ask for parity.
Source: City News Service
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Photo: 图：一辆废弃物收集车（资料图）。作者：PvOberstein，CC0，维基共享资源。 / Photo: A waste collection truck (file photo). Credit: PvOberstein, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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