Orange County eligibility workers who help process applications for benefits like CalFresh food stamps say their new contract was negotiated in bad faith by union leaders.
Tag: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
Posted inGovernment, Norberto Santana Jr., Top Stories
Battle Over County’s Labor Contracts Is Heating Up
As the Super Bowl of labor negotiations continues, leaders of two unions criticize supervisors on double standard for wages, promotions and raises. One supervisor responds that he doesn’t have a “pot of gold.”
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
In Social Services Agency, ‘We Go On Because the Work Is Essential’
Sandra Fox, an eligibility worker for the Orange County Social Services Agency, talks about the challenges she faces as poverty rates soar and resources wane.
Posted inGovernment, Politics & Elections
Orange County Leaders Take Another Bite From the Pension Reform Apple
They have been frustrated by lack of progress on a bill that would allow public employees across the country to opt into a lower pension benefit.
Posted inAnaheim, Politics & Elections
Unions Are Making Moves Beyond Financing Political Campaigns
Increasingly, labor unions are moving past a their lock step with the Democratic Party and into more community coalition building.
Posted inInvestigative, Politics & Elections
UC Commencement Speakers Dropping Like Flies
Others follow Loretta Sanchez’s decision to head union call to boycott graduation ceremonies as a protest to layoffs by the University of California system.
