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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

The 2014 elections could have gone either way.  Fortunately for us and for the future of County services, we successfully helped elect the very best people for the job.  We've reported at...

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...

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.

More importantly,...

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.

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By now I hope that every CAPE member living in the Third Supervisorial District has already voted for our candidate, Sheila Kuehl. She is clearly the more experienced candidate and strongly supported by all the County unions.

CAPE is helping lead the effort on an ambitious, combined independent expenditure campaign coordinated through the L.A....

There is an old saying in Washington, D.C., politics, “If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu.” The same is unfortunately true for L.A. County politics, and the point is especially true for the 2014 and 2016 L.A. County Supervisor races.

When the right individuals are elected to high office, like the County Board of Supervisors,...

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