April 4, 2025

In light of the recent budget directives from the County Executive Office, the OCDA plans to hold voluntary unit-by-unit meetings where employees can ask questions and share any concerns they may have regarding the budget or related topics.

April 4, 2025

Your OCEA negotiations team met with OC San bargaining representatives on Thursday, March 27, to present our opening proposal. This proposal was built directly on the priorities you identified in the negotiations survey conducted late last year. Your team carefully reviewed each survey response to ensure our proposal accurately reflects members' needs and concerns.

April 2, 2025

Yesterday, we held our first meet and confer with the County regarding the potential reorganization of your program.

April 1, 2025

Your negotiations team is preparing to represent your interests and fight for the wages, benefits and working conditions you deserve. As we prepare our strategy, your input is critical.

April 1, 2025

APRIL FOOLS! Many of you saw RFA manager David Harper's email titled: “ANNOUNCEMENT: 2 in-office days per week.” It was an April Fools' joke that listed issues Harper has with individual workers in the division (not named).

March 21, 2025

Thank you to everyone who supported us in our effort last week when we brought critical CFS issues to the highest level of County governance at the Board of Supervisors meeting. Because of your voices, we forced County leadership to acknowledge the crisis at CFS. The momentum is building and we cannot let up—real change requires continued pressure.

March 20, 2025

As you may know, negotiations with the City of Placentia will begin later this year. Your PCEA negotiations team is preparing to represent your interests and fight for the wages, benefits and working conditions you deserve. As we prepare our strategy, your input is critical.

March 20, 2025

Thank you to everyone who attended our membership meeting on Thursday, March 20, 2025. As you know, negotiations with the City of Newport Beach will begin soon. Although our current contract doesn’t expire until the end of December, the City has requested that we commence negotiations a little earlier than usual. Your NBEL negotiations team is preparing to represent your interests and fight for the wages, benefits and working conditions you deserve. As we prepare our strategy, your input is critical.

March 19, 2025

We’re writing to update you on contract negotiations. We began this negotiations cycle with a membership meeting on January 22 to outline the negotiations process and launch the 2025 OMEA Negotiations Survey. Thank you to all who participated—your feedback has been invaluable.

March 18, 2025

Your OCEA negotiations team met Monday, March 17, 2025, for a financial presentation from the District. This presentation helps us to establish context and a baseline for bargaining, and covered fiscal projections, revenue sources, fund balances, economic forecasts and more.

March 14, 2025

As we prepare for negotiations with OC San, your OCEA negotiations team will meet on Monday, March 17, 2025, for a financial presentation from the District. This presentation will help us to establish context and a baseline for bargaining, and often covers fiscal projections, revenue sources, fund balances, economic forecasts and more.

March 12, 2025

Stunned silence. That is how members of the County Board of Supervisors reacted when OCEA representatives took the recent CFS Social Worker survey results to the County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday afternoon.

March 12, 2025

We’re writing to provide you with an update on the important issues facing OCPL workers and how OCEA has been addressing those issues.

March 11, 2025

Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, representatives from OCEA will attend the Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting to communicate that that the time is now to make significant, meaningful change within CFS.

March 5, 2025

For years, CFS executive managers have gaslit and ignored you, as documented in volumes by 225 of you who took OCEA’s CFS Social Worker Survey. While your executive managers may not have listened to your voices, the County CEO and Orange County Board of Supervisors are listening now.