The Orange County Board of Supervisors began 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
\u201cWe have kind of a side deal to reopen the landfills\u201d 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 \u201colive branch of good faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the meeting began, an aide to Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, read a letter to the supervisors from the congressman encouraging the board and the union to \u201ccontinue working together for a fair resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board then went into closed session to review proposals from the Teamsters Joint Council 42 that were provided through a mediator. 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\u2019s 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\u2019s three landfills.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that we have the landfills open the trash companies storing trash are now able to access that,\u201d Chaffee said. \u201cThat\u2019s supposed to be good all week. But I don\u2019t know what happens if we say no to all their stuff on Friday. We\u2019re hoping we now can have reasonable conversations instead of strikes going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
County and union officials got into a back-and-forth this week over the Teamsters\u2019 picketing tactics. The county filed a complaint with the Public Employment Relations Board alleging the picketers were breaking the law with \u201chuman chains\u201d 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
\u201cWe have pictures and statements from (waste hauling) drivers, but I guess that\u2019s all in our imagination,\u201d Chaffee said of the evidence the county has presented for its case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orange County Board of Supervisors began a special closed-door meeting Friday to consider new proposals for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,34732,166,16976,171,114062,19106,2086,78232],"class_list":["post-505897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-begin","tag-county","tag-meeting","tag-orange","tag-special","tag-strikes","tag-supervisors","tag-teamsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505897","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=505897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}