Supervisors Approve Contracts with Two Largest Locals

RIVERSIDE - The Board of Supervisors today approved tentative collective bargaining agreements with the county's two largest public sector unions, which will produce what one board member characterized as ''dramatic savings'' for the county over the next decade.

''This is excellent work,'' board Chairman John Tavaglione said of the compacts with the 6,800-member Laborers International Union of North America, Local 777, and 5,600-member Service Employees International Union, Local 721.

Tavaglione praised Department of Human Resources Director Barbara Olivier and chief county negotiator Brian Mc...