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Achieving new wage and working condition contract agreements before the existing contracts expire is among the surest ways for County management to guarantee labor peace in Los Angeles County. CAPE members' Salary Contracts expire at midnight on September 30, 2015 and the clock is ticking.

On Monday, September 14th, the CAPE...

Thank you to Dennis Ruh and John Fallon for their past service; Welcome Jonathon Bell and Carl Lindner. 

Service on the CAPE Board of Directors is time consuming and always a challenge. CAPE members deeply appreciate the decades John Fallon spent on our Board of Directors and on the CAPE Benefit Trust. Likewise, Dennis Ruh leaves big shoes to...

With the introduction of paperless paychecks, it has become easy for County employees to forget to review their paychecks each pay period for errors or omissions. A recent audit in the County Assessor's Office uncovered that six Appraisers were not receiving their Advance Appraisal Certificate Bonus for up to two years. Management is correcting the...

In early August, CAPE’s Technical Support Bargaining Unit members held a re-vote over the Tentative Agreement (TA) their CAPE Bargaining Team reached with Districts’ management in May 2014 for a successor MOU for the Unit’s employees.

The members’ confidential ballots were tallied the morning of August 12th, and by a slim margin, the TA was...

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 longtime CAPE member and delegate Cheryl Williams, Principal Appraiser from the Assessor Department, celebrated her retirement with a capacity crowd of colleagues, friends, and family at The Petroleum Club in Long Beach. Cheryl (pictured center) was presented with the CAPE Honorary Life Member Award from CAPE Board member, Lisa...

CAPE members’ salary and working conditions contracts with Los Angeles County will expire September 30, 2015. Since early April, the CAPE Bargaining Teams have conducted more than a dozen formal negotiating sessions with management representatives over terms for successor contracts. Although the CAPE Teams have made good progress toward achieving a fair...

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