Garden Grove City Employees Association
OCEA members in the Garden Grove City Employees Association are represented by union stewards and a professional staff of labor relations representatives. Standing together, every OCEA member in the Garden Grove City Employees Association plays a role in achieving better wages, retirement security and fair rights on the job.
The information below is a resource for all OCEA members in the Garden Grove City Employees Association. Below, you will find a list of stewards and staff representatives for OCEA members assigned to the Garden Grove City Employees Association. You’ll also find the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which is the negotiated union contract that sets forth the wages, hours and working conditions guiding your employment. And you can also find updates and news from OCEA about what’s happening in your agency and across the County.
Stay informed: Union news that affects you!
BEWARE: Anti-Union Group Up to Their Old Tricks
July 3, 2025
Like clockwork, every few years members of an anti-union organization called the Freedom Foundation contact local union members urging them to break solidarity and abandon their union brothers and sisters. Recently, this group, which operates outside of California, sent misleading mailers and email messages to public employees across Orange County.
Ratification Results Are In – What Comes Next for GGCEA
June 30, 2025
We are pleased to announce that GGCEA has reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with the City of Garden Grove on a successor MOU, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027.
OCEA LABOR RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE
Mariela Ortiz
Labor Relations Representative
Kerensa Schupmann
Senior Labor Relations Representative