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!
GGEL’s Fight and What It Means for GGCEA — Rally August 12
August 6, 2025
As you may know, our union siblings in the Garden Grove Employees League (GGEL) — who bargained alongside us in coordination — have declared impasse with the City of Garden Grove and are now preparing for mediation.
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.
OCEA LABOR RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE
Mariela Ortiz
Labor Relations Representative
Kerensa Schupmann
Senior Labor Relations Representative