The California Association of Professional Employees (CAPE, AFL-CIO) is the bargaining unit for more than 2,500 professional employees of the County of Los Angeles.
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.
In this issue, we look back at the amazing work and incredible victories secured during the fall and winter of 2023, discuss helpful tips when considering retirement, and gear up for CAPE’s 60th Anniversary in 2024.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
