Catherwood LibraryILR School

With three days' worth of trash already piling up on curbs and in back yards throughout Orange County, California, a strike involving approximately 800 sanitation workers is threatening to spread to nearby South County. The four waste management companies being struck by Teamster members in Orange County, also have unionized employees in South County---many of whom are apparently engaging in a two-day old sickout in support of their union brothers and sisters. While county officials are concerned about the strike, they have made it clear that they can only get involved if the strike causes a health or safety risk to the public.