Laid-Off Custodians Protest to Supervisors
About 50 county custodial workers who were laid off July 29 crowded to the front of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ chambers Tuesday, demanding that they be reinstated or trained for other county jobs.
Because they were temporary employees who had worked fewer than five years, the workers were not covered under a board reprieve that delayed until the end of August the laying off at least 30 custodians and other blue-collar workers.
Supervisors Ed Edelman and Kenneth Hahn both urged Chief Administrative Officer Richard B. Dixon to meet the workers’ demands. But Dixon, pointing to the poor financial situation that led to the layoffs, said he could only promise to tell county department managers to give the temporary employees priority for similar jobs elsewhere in the county.
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