Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/american-federation-of-state-county-and-municipal-employees/)
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.”
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.
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.
Increasingly, labor unions are moving past a their lock step with the Democratic Party and into more community coalition building.
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.