{"id":177021,"date":"2026-02-13T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:25:08","slug":"city-of-orange-braces-for-potential-electrical-workers-strike-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177021\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Orange braces for potential electrical workers strike \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electrical workers are poised to strike in Orange<\/a> after labor negotiations with the city deadlocked.<\/p>\n

City leaders and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 47, which represents city employees in the maintenance and crafts and water divisions, have engaged in labor negotiations since spring 2025, a city statement said.<\/a><\/p>\n

The last contract the city and IBEW Local 47 agreed on ran out in June.<\/p>\n

Negotiations with IBEW Local 47 are \u201ccurrently at an impasse,\u201d and the union has notified the city it plans to strike at a date to be determined, Orange officials said.<\/p>\n

The city has been negotiating the contract \u201camidst ongoing budget constraints,\u201d city officials said in their statement, referring to a structural deficit the city<\/a> is grappling with.<\/p>\n

The City Council has begun addressing the budget shortfalls, deciding last July<\/a> to approve nearly $18 million in general fund cuts for this fiscal year. After a series of staff and steep spending cuts, the council slimmed the deficit to about $2.6 million this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a strike authorizing vote, and our members weren\u2019t too happy,\u201d Local 47 Business Manager and Financial Secretary Colin Lavin said. \u201cIt is unfortunate that the city has taken the position that they are broke and they don\u2019t have money and are choosing to not give our workers a minimal raise.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBEW Local 47 union representatives are asking for wages and benefits that parity with other cities of the same scale, Lavin said.<\/p>\n

The union represents around 150 employees working for the city, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city of Orange is committed to fair and productive negotiations and ensuring that essential services are maintained for our residents and businesses,\u201d Mayor Dan Slater said. \u201cThe door remains open to further discussion and timely resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe employees represented by IBEW Local 47 perform critical work for our community, and the city respects our employees\u2019 legal right to engage in protected labor activity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Services that city officials say may be delayed or affected include \u201cmaintenance and repairs,\u201d \u201cresponse to time-sensitive issues\u201d and \u201cnon-emergency field and administrative services, including parks maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police, fire, emergency response services and the safety of the city\u2019s water drinking systems will not be affected, city officials said, and in anticipation of the intended strike, the city \u201chas prepared contingency plans to ensure service impacts, if any, are limited,\u201d including deploying city staffers in \u201ca manner that focuses exclusively on front-line, essential services.\u201d<\/p>\n

All service requests can continue to be made through the\u00a0Orange 24\/7 application\u00a0and the City\u2019s 24-hour water emergency repair line at (714) 538-1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electrical workers are poised to strike in Orange after labor negotiations with the city deadlocked. City leaders and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,6974,1071,23,171,611,136],"class_list":["post-177021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-community","tag-labor-unions","tag-local-government","tag-local-news","tag-orange","tag-orange-county","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}