SANTA ANA (CNS) – The Orange County Board of Supervisors will hold a special closed-door meeting Friday 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 (CNS) – The Orange County Board of Supervisors will hold a special closed-door meeting Friday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7048,3557,163,165,164,7053,26,7065,7057,4300,7061,7060,7054,7052,7056,7055,7066,6217,48,7068,47,7063,7062,973,7069,100,7064,2083,611,1839,4201,6220,7070,7049,7050,7051,7059,7058,7067],"class_list":["post-505557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-7048","tag-am","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-bill-handel","tag-breaking-news","tag-broadcasting","tag-conway","tag-eaton-fire","tag-gary-shannon","tag-gary-and-shannon","tag-gary-hoffmann","tag-handel","tag-john-ken","tag-john-and-ken","tag-john-kobylt","tag-kfi","tag-la","tag-la-fires","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-radio","tag-los-angeles-talk-radio","tag-media","tag-mo-kelly","tag-news","tag-newstalk","tag-oc","tag-orange-county","tag-palisades-fire","tag-radio","tag-radio-station","tag-santa-ana-winds","tag-stay-connected","tag-stimulating","tag-talk","tag-talk-radio","tag-tim-conway","tag-wild-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505557","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=505557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}