SANTA ANA, Calif. \u2014 The Orange County Board of Supervisors will hold a special closed-door meeting Thursday to consider new proposals for a labor contract with the local union representing waste and public works employees.<\/p>\n
“We have kind of a side deal to reopen the landfills” in the meantime, Board Chairman Doug Chaffee told City News Service on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Teamsters Joint Council 42 spokesman Christian Castro said the union agreed to suspend the strike as an “olive branch of good faith.”<\/p>\n
The special board meeting will be the supervisors’ chance to review proposals from the Teamsters Joint Council 42 that were provided through a mediator, Chaffee said. The mediator has met separately with representatives from both sides.<\/p>\n
The Teamsters strike, which started last week, is on hiatus from picketing so waste haulers can now use the county’s landfills without crossing a picket line, Chaffee said. That takes the pressure off temporary sites waste- hauling companies use before taking garbage to the county’s three landfills.<\/p>\n
“Now that we have the landfills open the trash companies storing trash are now able to access that,” Chaffee said. “That’s supposed to be good all week. But I don’t know what happens if we say no to all their stuff on Friday. We’re hoping we now can have reasonable conversations instead of strikes going forward.”<\/p>\n
County and union officials got into a back-and-forth this week over the Teamsters’ picketing tactics. The county filed a complaint with the Public Employment Relations Board alleging the picketers were breaking the law with “human chains” and blocking traffic while also falsely telling customers the landfills were closed.<\/p>\n
Teamsters officials countered that the allegations were untrue and accused county officials of violating labor law themselves.<\/p>\n
“We have pictures and statements from (waste hauling) drivers, but I guess that’s all in our imagination,” Chaffee said of the evidence the county has presented for its case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA, Calif. \u2014 The Orange County Board of Supervisors will hold a special closed-door meeting Thursday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,5997,12862,387,7,38874,13],"class_list":["post-504345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-local-business","tag-business","tag-california","tag-city-news-service","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504345","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=504345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}