September 20, 2017

Last week, your OCEA workplace leaders and staff representatives met with management for the Animal Care Labor Management Committee meeting, and we wanted to report some progress made on two key issues: Unfairness in the scheduling process and unnecessary delays in granting time off.

September 15, 2017

Through the efforts of your workplace leaders and OCEA President, Lezlee Neebe, we have quickly confirmed that the West Justice Center experienced damage to the main water line and will be closed for the remainder of the day.

September 15, 2017

Your colleagues and workplace leaders want to hear from you about how we can make FSS a better place to work.

September 14, 2017

As you know, OCEA members have been engaged with County IT management since 2012 to both mitigate the impacts of the County’s massive SAIC and Xerox/ATOS contracts and to monitor service levels and costs for the County.

September 13, 2017

Open enrollment is here and continues through September 30 with some new opportunities to protect you and your family at NO COST.

September 8, 2017

This week is Labor Day week. Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894, and before that had been unofficially celebrated for years in support of the role labor unions play in achieving advances in the working lives of Americans, including weekends, overtime, paid holidays, and health and retirement benefits. It has traditionally been a time of parades, community events and family-centered celebrations.

September 5, 2017

your OCEA bargaining team had our fifth bargaining session with the Court. In our last bargaining session, we provided the Court a comprehensive response to their initial proposal. Yesterday, your team and the Court had multiple proposal exchanges, and here is an update on the progress.

August 31, 2017

OCEA Steward and Court Clerk III LeAnne Wunsch submitted a guest editorial regarding court negotiations in the Voice of OC, a non-profit investigative news agency covering Orange County.

August 30, 2017

Your 2018 open enrollment packets for supplemental benefits are in the mail, and the OCEA Health & Welfare Trust is adding new benefits for you and your family offered at no cost exclusively to OCEA members.

August 25, 2017

Orange County voters are notoriously alert when it comes to watching out for their tax dollars. So voters here might be both surprised and dismayed to find out that our county has been a poster child for insider deals and rigged bidding processes that have awarded lucrative deals to campaign donors and cronies of high-ranking officials. Assembly Bill 1250 will bring county contracts out of the shadows, allowing the public and the news media to scrutinize them in the light of day. A one-month window remains for the Legislature to pass bills and Gov. Brown to sign them this year. Protecting taxpayers from waste with AB1250 should top their priority list.

August 17, 2017

The time has come! After months of preparation your bargaining team met with the Court to begin the process of negotiating the contract you and your family deserve.

August 11, 2017

I’ll bet every Orange County Register reader knows someone who relies on prescription medication to stay alive. Whether they’re fighting cancer, controlling high blood pressure or diabetes, treating an auto immune disease or a bout with pneumonia, access to medication is just as critical as food and water for many in our communities.

August 9, 2017

To help you get to the next level, OCEA is offering a seminar made up of two-part classes that can give you the tools needed to make your application for a transfer or promotion more competitive.

August 9, 2017

The working group was established as a direct result of OCEA member advocacy and taken up by the Court Bargaining Team

July 28, 2017

Last month the Orange County Board of Supervisors quietly voted to reject a new model for voting in our county elections that would have saved taxpayers millions of dollars and expanded access to voting.