December 24, 2018

During this special time of the year when we gather with friends and family, I wanted to thank you for all you do for our County and our community.

December 15, 2018

I’m writing about our organization’s transition because my decision to step away from work illuminates one small slice of the condition of women today. We have protections and rights my mother and grandmother’s generations fought to secure, but we still have so much more to achieve in the pursuit of true fairness and equality.

November 28, 2018

We recently received a decision from the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) that confirms what we have always known - the County’s unilateral adoption of its COIN ordinance violated the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act governing labor relations in California.

November 9, 2018

Bring the whole family to our sixth annual free Salute to Veterans Celebration.

October 12, 2018

Election Day is almost here. Vote-by-mail ballots are in mailboxes now, and election day is Nov. 6, so we wanted to share a short list of OCEA-endorsed candidates in the upcoming November General Election—candidates who have demonstrated they have stood with working families like yours.

October 9, 2018

There is only ONE candidate for OCERS Board that has a proven track record of fighting for members. Vote for Chris Prevatt to protect your retirement security.

September 26, 2018

By now you should have received your ballot to vote in the 2018 OCERS general election.

September 22, 2018

How the Senate, the president and our nation respond to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as a United States Supreme Court justice could be a turning point in the moral history of our country, watched by generations to come.

September 13, 2018

We have again spoken to Human Resources and have been advised that workers should contact their immediate supervisors if anyone would like to move to another work space because of the hot and uncomfortable conditions.

September 10, 2018

OCEA's Social Worker Committee comprised of Social Workers and OCEA staff met again on Tuesday, Aug. 28 to continue work on some long-standing issues facing you and your coworkers in particular the lack of a specific County framework for managing both Social Worker caseload and workload.

September 10, 2018

OCEA's annual Health Fair, presented by OCEA Health & Welfare Trust, takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at OCEA.

September 6, 2018

Most Americans have a vague idea that Labor Day is intended to acknowledge the achievements and sacrifices of working people and what they have meant to our collective history. Yet drowned out by commercials for blowout sales and plans for barbecues, the holiday can often seem like an empty nod to some distant past.

August 28, 2018

It has been an honor to represent County workers as your member representative to the OCERS Board. As you know, workers are able to elect two member representatives to serve as Trustees on behalf of all of you. Since I was first elected to the Board in 2012, I have stood with you to protect your pension against attacks and unnecessary cost increases.

August 22, 2018

Last week, OCEA presented our initial proposal to the Court which seeks to provide base-building wage enhancements for all Court workers. Yesterday your bargaining team met for our third round of negotiations where the Court presented OCEA with a comprehensive opening proposal in response. Again, the Court demonstrated an indifference towards the realities OCEA members face every day. We were handed a meager, unacceptable wage proposal and little else.

August 18, 2018

Equal pay for equal work — it’s a pretty simple fairness doctrine that says no worker, no matter their gender, race or where they live should be paid anything but a fair and equitable wage for the work they do.