March 2, 2018
Orange County
OC Register: See before-and-after photos of the Santa Ana River Trail with homeless people gone and trash cleaned up
Over the last two weeks, OCEA members standing together did great work on the Santa Ana Riverbed. HCA's Outreach and Engagement Team, SSA social workers and Public Works personnel participated in a monumental effort to provide temporary shelter for 732 homeless individuals encamped along the river. The county's professional, dedicated public workers did what they have been trained to do: help people who really need it.
Voice of OC: Westminster ballot measure would Increase Mayor’s term from two to four years
A ballot measure to increase the Westminster mayor’s term from two to four years, with no term limits, will go before voters in the June 5 primary election.
Labor 411: Disney workers begin protests over management withholding $1,000 bonuses from Union members
'We want the $1,000 tax bonus, and we want a good raise. The two are separate,' cast member Jeremy Haicken said. 'We don't want the $1,000 held over our head to make us accept a 50-cent raise.'
OC Register: Refugees from Vietnam who have been in US for decades are being detained and targeted for deportation, immigrants rights group says
Hoang Trinh was four years old when he arrived from Vietnam, part of a large Catholic family that fled a war-torn homeland to build a new life together in Garden Grove. But now the United States government wants him to return to Vietnam.
Labor
AFL-CIO: Time to stop tax breaks for outsourcing
Let’s level the playing field for domestic companies by ensuring that multinationals pay the same tax rate on profits earned abroad as they do here at home.
Bloomberg: Made-in-America steel includes mills owned by Russians, Mexicans
While those foreign companies would pay tariffs on any semi-finished products such as slabs they bring in to the U.S., they wouldn’t be subject to duties on metal produced in America.
California
OC Register: Hardest place to find empty housing? California!
The Great Recession and the uneven-but-powerful economic recovery made California’s long-running vacancy shortage only worse. Job creation has far outpaced developer’s ability and willingness to build new supply.
Publication Date: March 2, 2018
