May 2, 2017
OCEA
OCEA: Check out our new website!
The site should be much easier to navigate and is compatible with all types of mobile devices. It has plenty of new features, including an interactive calendar of OCEA events, Members Only seminars and union meetings, as well as access to news about issues impacting your workplace.
OC Weekly: Have you seen OCEA's stolen Hot Dog Wagon?
The outpouring of support following the break-in shows just how much the community reveres the wagon. The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs lent their own van and grill for the time being until the OCEA buys a replacement.
Orange County
OC Register: May Day rallies in Orange County focus on immigrant and worker rights
Hai Ching Cheah, a nurse at St. Jude Medical Center, said registered nurses at the hospital have been trying to form a union for the past two years. “We constantly are assigned too many patients, in violation of the law,” she said. “We nurses are dealing with life and death situations.”
OC Register: $50 million included for Santa Ana, Garden Grove streetcar in congressional funding
Other funding sources include money from the state and Measure M, Orange County’s half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements.
Voice of OC: OC supervisors order crime data not be sent to Sacramento
Nearly all California counties submit the voluntary reports to the Board of State and Community Corrections, which compiles the data into an annual public report to the governor and state Legislature. But county Supervisor Todd Spitzer has intensely disputed the state’s standardized definition for recidivism.
Voice of OC’s Santana: Public spaces should reflect the public that pays for them
Orange County supervisors are poised to soon begin creation of one of Orange County’s grandest civic spaces. Yet almost no one knows anything about it.
OC Register: California, Inland Empire in building booms: 6 things to know
Orange County added 5,000 workers or 5 percent. Los Angeles County was up 4,900 jobs or 4 percent. The four-county addition of 22,100 construction workers is roughly equal to the entire building industry’s employment in Detroit or Albuquerque or Tulsa.
Daily Pilot: Huntington Beach to test organic pesticides in Central Park
The year-long pilot program submitted by Councilman Billy O’Connell calls for the city to use organic pesticides in the western section of Central Park.
Publication Date: May 2, 2017
