Overview
- Nearly 2,000 public employees from SEIU Local 1021, IFPTE Local 21, IUOE Local 39 and UAPD began a planned two-day walkout Tuesday.
- Picket lines are set for 7 a.m. at multiple county worksites with midday rallies at the County Administration Building in Fairfield.
- Unions cite chronic understaffing and retention problems affecting health, social services and other departments, and they filed unfair labor practice charges in December.
- The county says its proposal totals more than $90 million in salary increases, cash payments, higher insurance contributions and added benefits after over 70 meetings and 240 union proposals.
- Officials activated contingency plans, keeping urgent Health and Human Services needs open while rescheduling appointments, closing nine library branches and two open-space areas, and maintaining limited hours at the Fairfield Civic Center Library.