Union Sues County Over 350 Layoffs
The Service Employees International Union on Monday filed suit against Los Angeles County, alleging that 350 county employees were denied job placement assistance after being laid off last September.
The suit, filed by Local 660, said the employees of the Internal Services Department were denied assistance promised to county employees by the Board of Supervisors in 1982. At that time, the county agreed to put 5% of the money it saved by contracting out work formerly done by union members into a fund to help the employees whose jobs were eliminated.
An attorney for the union, James Varga, said the county has offered job assistance only intermittently since 1982, and that the last time was in 1985.
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