July 22, 2019

Orange County

OC Register: Fullerton may consider a moratorium on rent hikes for mobile home parks

Fullerton officials are looking at a moratorium on rent increases for mobile home parks as a possible way to protect hundreds facing steep hikes this fall from being priced out of their community.

 

OC Register: Can Orange County end homelessness for local veterans?

Somewhere out there right now in Orange County, about 80 homeless men and women who once served their country in the military are searching for housing, hoping to use government-issued vouchers to help pay the rent.

 

OC Register: Newport Beach Fire Department to get new chief after national search

Pending a final review of his contract, Jeff Boyles will take over the role from Chief Chip Duncan who will retire Monday, July 22 after serving the department since 1987. Duncan became fire chief in December 2016.

 

OC Register: After-school programs still waiting on cannabis tax money

The voter-mandated programs get a fixed amount of funding each year, based on how many students they help. But that financing doesn’t change, even as costs to run those programs — including a jump in the state’s minimum wage — shoot up.

 

OC Register: 3,000 attend dazzling dedication of remodeled Christ Cathedral, Orange County’s new center of Catholicism

At the start of the four-hour service, Kevin Vann, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, assumed guardianship in a ceremonial “handing over of the building” by those in charge of its renovation.

 

Labor

OC Register: Grocery chains and UFCW make progress; more talks are planned

Supermarket executives agreed last week to drop a provision that would have downgraded the job classification for cashiers at some 500 supermarkets, which leaders of the United Food and Commercial Workers said would have slashed those workers’ pay by 25%

 

Labor 411: The Good Fight: Government shutdown hurt workers and cost billions

According to a survey on how the shutdown affected the finances of workers conducted by Prudential, nearly half of respondents fell behind on their bills. Most spent all their emergency savings. The survey also found that 80 percent experienced high levels of stress.

 

LA Business Journal: Labor unions gaining momentum

With unemployment rates at record lows, labor has ramped up organizing, and union officials have become more aggressive in their tactics — even as labor membership slips.

 

Publication Date: July 22, 2019