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CAPE Night: Worker's Compensation Event

The Partners of Ford & Wallach, one of California’s preeminent workers’ compensation law firms, will be holding a special CAPE Night: Worker’s Compensation training session on Wednesday, May

Investing in Our Health: The Importance of Regular Dental Check-ups

We often hear the saying, "Health is wealth," and it couldn't be truer.

New CAPE Representation Handbook Available Now

We are a successful and thriving union, but a strong contract means little if members aren’t aware of our rights in the workplace and empowered to exercise them.

Contract Dispute between CAPE and the Sanitation Districts Goes Unresolved in State Mediation; Fact Finding is Next

On November 10, 2014, the CAPE Negotiating Team for the Technical Support Bargaining Unit and Sanitation Districts’ management met with a State Mediator to attempt to bridge the current gap between the parties over the terms of a successor Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Unit’s employees. 

CAPE Candidates Dominate November 2014 Elections -- Kuehl Ascends to Board of Supervisors

Newly installed Third District Supervisor Sheila Kuehl tops the list of CAPE-endorsed winners in the November 2014 General Elections.  All of CAPE's county-wide candidates won election, and all but a few of CAPE's statewide candidates won election or re-election to the State Senate and Assembly.

CAPE Membership Survey Shows Professional Employee Priorities for 2015 Contract Negotiations

Hundreds of CAPE members responded to the 2015 Salary and Fringe Benefit Contract Negotiations Survey in November and December. Complete results will be presented to the Board of Directors and Negotiating Teams in January 2015 as part of their preparations for the 2015 contract bargaining. 

ERCOM UPDATE: County officials moved ahead with new structure and their appointed majority, Labor officials hopeful new Board of Supervisors majority will restore fairness

The primary means of resolving labor-management disputes in Los Angeles County has been inactive since the County Board of Supervisors unilaterally imposed a new appointment process for the Employee Relations Commission (ERCOM) nearly two years ago.

President's Message: The Era of New Leadership for Los Angeles County has Begun By Carlos Clayton, CAPE President

Change is here:  We have two new Supervisors, a new Assessor, a new Sheriff, and two more open Supervisorial seats are on the ballot in 2016

Representation Update: We Need It On Time!

It never fails.  Promotional Exam Scores and/or Banding, Performance Evaluations, Intent to Discipline Letters, Disciplinary Actions, and more are either publicly posted or confidentially issued to a member.  Every one of these management actions has a time limit for the member to take action in response.  For example, the time limit for filing a grievance is outlined in Article 16 of the Bargaining Units 131/132 MOU for all appraisal staff, and Article 18 of the Bargaining Units 501/502 and 511/512 MOUs for all Professional Engineer (Supervisory & Non-Supervisory) and En

2015 Contract Negotiations Approaching, Membership Survey Starts Bargaining Prep

The contracts that govern CAPE members’ salary and working conditions, as well as fringe benefits, will both expire at midnight on September 30, 2015. The preparations are already underway to assemble the economic data and pay comparisons to present the best possible salary contract proposal to County representatives next year.

Sanitation Districts Update: Technical Support Unit Negotiations Reach an Impasse; Headed to Mediation

Early this year, after several rounds of difficult and contentious negotiations, the CAPE Negotiating Team for the Technical Support Bargaining Unit reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) with Sanitation Districts’ management for a successor MOU for their Unit. The TA, however, did not garner the required majority vote of the membership for approval.