橙县465多名县府雇员罢工 道路维护与填埋场等服务受影响 县府称已备应急预案
橙县（圣安娜）——10月13日凌晨4时起，代表橙县465多名县府雇员的卡车司机工会第952分会（Teamsters Local 952）发动罢工。工会称这是一次「不当劳动行为罢工」：双方就新劳动合同谈判了七个月仍未达成协议，工会已就县府涉嫌不诚信谈判提出不当劳动行为指控。
当天早上6时，罢工雇员在县内多处设立纠察线；上午11时，工会在圣安娜市西市政中心大道400号（400 W. Civic Center Dr.）的县行政大楼外举行记者会，当时县监事会正在楼内开会。工会第952分会秘书兼财务主管埃里克·希门尼斯（Eric Jimenez）与橙县劳工联合会执行主任格洛丽亚·阿尔瓦拉多（Gloria Alvarado）出席记者会。
罢工雇员分布在橙县公共工程处（OC Public Works）、橙县废弃物与回收处（OC Waste & Recycling）、橙县社区资源处（OC Community Resources）等县府部门。工会警告，罢工可能造成道路与防洪渠维护、垃圾填埋场运营、公园与海滩维护、县府及应急车辆维修等服务延误。
服务受影响已有官方记录。尔湾市政府10月13日发布公告称，受罢工影响，位于尔湾市内的弗兰克·R·鲍尔曼填埋场（Frank R. Bowerman Landfill）照常开放接收垃圾，但作业可能出现延误；该场的公众堆肥领取区以及沥青、土壤交付服务暂停，直至另行通知；原定10月17日举行的堆肥发放活动取消。尔湾市政府表示，罢工预计于周二（13日）晚7时结束，填埋场通道比峡谷通道（Bee Canyon Access Road）一带可能出现交通延误。
谈判分歧方面，据工会表示，县府在谈判中迟迟没有实质进展，并拒绝把追溯补薪纳入新协议；工会称其早在2025年12月即要求启动谈判、今年3月起提交方案，指县府直到8月才有实质动作。据 Voice of OC 报道，县府此前提出的方案为一年期合同、加薪3%，且不包含旧约过期期间的补薪；卡车司机工会、县警副手（sheriff's deputies）工会与美国州县市雇员联合会（AFSCME）当地分会均已拒绝该方案。工会同时指出，县监事会此前投票通过给监事加薪25%，每人每年约增加4.9万美元，年薪升至24.4万美元以上。
希门尼斯在声明中表示，工会已尽一切努力争取一份公平协议，但遭遇数月拖延；工会发言人克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗（Christian Castro）表示，县监事会已告知工会，待周二闭门会议结束后将向工会提出方案。
县府方面上周四（10月8日）曾就罢工威胁发表声明，表示尊重雇员「依据加州法律从事合法罢工活动的权利」，并称其首要任务是确保基本公共服务不中断，已制定应急预案以尽量减少服务中断。县府此前的声明未回应工会关于谈判进度与追溯补薪的指控。截至发稿时（10月13日下午），县府尚未公布闭门会议后的方案细节。
More Than 465 Orange County Workers Strike Over Stalled Contract Talks; County Says Contingency Plans in Place
ORANGE COUNTY (Santa Ana) — More than 465 Orange County employees represented by Teamsters Local 952 went on strike beginning at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, October 13. The union describes the walkout as an unfair labor practice strike: after seven months of bargaining, the two sides have not reached a new contract agreement, and the union has filed an unfair labor practice charge alleging bad-faith bargaining by the county.
Picket lines went up at 6 a.m. at locations across the county. At 11 a.m., the union held a news conference outside the County Administration Building at 400 W. Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana, while the Board of Supervisors was meeting inside. Local 952 Secretary-Treasurer Eric Jimenez and Gloria Alvarado, executive director of the Orange County Federation of Labor, took part in the news conference.
The striking workers are employed across OC Public Works, OC Waste & Recycling, OC Community Resources and other county operations. The union warns the strike may delay road and flood channel maintenance, landfill operations, parks and beach maintenance, and repairs to county and first responder vehicles.
At least one service impact has been officially documented. In a notice issued October 13, the City of Irvine said the Frank R. Bowerman Landfill in Irvine remains open and accepting waste but delays may occur because of the strike; the landfill's public compost pickup area and its asphalt and soil delivery services are temporarily unavailable until further notice, and a compost distribution event scheduled for October 17 has been canceled. The city said the strike is expected to conclude at 7 p.m. Tuesday and that traffic delays are likely on Bee Canyon Access Road near the landfill entrance.
On the bargaining dispute, the union says the county made little meaningful movement during negotiations and is refusing to include retroactive pay in a new agreement. The union says it asked to begin bargaining as early as December 2025 and began submitting proposals in March, alleging the county did not move meaningfully until August. According to Voice of OC, the county's offer on the table is a one-year contract with a 3 percent raise and no back pay for the months the old agreement sat expired; the Teamsters, the sheriff's deputies' union and the county's AFSCME local have all rejected it. The union also points out that the Board of Supervisors previously voted to raise supervisors' salaries by 25 percent, an increase of about $49,000 per supervisor annually, bringing their annual salaries to more than $244,000.
Jimenez said in a statement that the union has done everything in its power to reach a fair agreement but has been met with months of delays. Union spokesperson Christian Castro said the Board of Supervisors told the union it will have a proposal for them after the board's closed session on Tuesday.
In a statement issued last Thursday (October 8) in response to the strike threat, the county said it respects the rights of its employees to engage in lawful strike activity under California law, that its priority remains ensuring the continuity of essential public services, and that it has contingency plans in place to minimize service disruptions. The county's earlier statement did not address the union's allegations regarding the pace of negotiations or retroactive pay. As of publication on Tuesday afternoon, the county had not released details of any proposal following the closed session.
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