A strike was averted Monday when California's governor intervened in a labor dispute that could have resulted in 1,100 Orange County bus drivers walking off the job today. The Orange County Transportation Authority requested that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger take action so that county bus service wouldn't be crippled. Drivers are seeking higher wages. County transit employees haven't walked off the job since the mid-1980s. The governor appointed a three-member panel to investigate the dispute between OCTA and Teamsters Local 952, which represents more than 1,400 employees ? bus drivers, mechanics and other workers. Their contract expired Monday.
See "Gov.'s action averts O.C. bus driver strike", David Reyes, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2007