No announcement emerged from the Orange County Board of Supervisors\u2019 special closed-door meeting Friday where they reviewed new proposals for a contract with the union representing waste and public works employees.<\/p>\n
The supervisors reviewed 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
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 Teamsters strike, which started last week, is on hiatus from picketing so waste haulers could use the county\u2019s landfills without crossing a picket line, Board Chairman Doug Chaffee said. That takes the pressure off temporary sites waste-hauling companies use before taking garbage to the county\u2019s three landfills.<\/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
Supervisor Don Wagner told City News Service he believes the county\u2019s \u201clast, best and final offer was a reasonable one under the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s finances are tight, especially since it had to pay out millions of dollars in settlements for the Airport Fire, Wagner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really stuck because we have dwindling resources,\u201d Wagner said.<\/p>\n
Wagner urged the Teamsters to take the latest deal because it would only be for a year and the county is likely to be in better shape financially next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext year, there will be a new supervisor in District 4,\u201d Wagner noted. \u201cWe\u2019re also looking for a new CEO, and the third thing is we\u2019ll have a better handle on next year\u2019s financial situation. This is not a great time for big, monumental decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orange County CEO K.C. Roestenberg took over for Michelle Aguirre when she retired and is not expected to stay in his job for many years, Wagner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely, with a new board in January, we\u2019d pick up the search again,\u201d Wagner said.<\/p>\n
The other issue for the county is if it sweetens an offer to the Teamsters it must do the same for all of the other unions in the county, Wagner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything we do for one has to be shared with everyone else,\u201d Wagner said. \u201cEven a small deal with the Teamsters \u2014 and it would be small \u2014 has this magnifying effect across the entire county. It really does limit the board\u2019s ability to do something.\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
The Teamsters are expected to vote on the proposal soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No announcement emerged from the Orange County Board of Supervisors\u2019 special closed-door meeting Friday where they reviewed new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,8108,16976,86,2086,78232],"class_list":["post-507912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-announcement","tag-meeting","tag-strike","tag-supervisors","tag-teamsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507912","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=507912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}