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The contract agreement that governs CAPE members' fringe benefits, such as the County's contribution to Choices family health care coverage and Horizons, the deferred compensation matching contribution program, are negotiated collectively with all of the CCU-affiliated county employee associations sitting across the bargaining table from County...

With negotiations starting this year on both our Salary Contract and our Fringe Benefit Contract, it's important that CAPE members know who is making the decisions on proposals from management's side.

Ultimately, it is the five members of the County Board of Supervisors that gives direction on what we'll see at the negotiations table. ...

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’s Technical Support Unit members...

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.

On the long list of winners, Kuehl stands out...

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. 

Preliminary topline results of the Survey indicate...

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.

County officials continue to insist on an appointment process for the ERCOM’s Commissioners that...

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