Nick Berardino, 67, the longtime leader of Orange County’s largest union is retiring this summer, on July 31, according to the O.C. Register.
Berardino has been the top labor boss for public employees at the Orange County Employees Association for 11 years.
Former O.C. Register reporter Jennifer Muir, 34, the union’s assistant general manager since 2010, was chose by the union members to replace Berardino, after a national search. Continue reading
Managers were making their final contract offer at the Santa Ana offices of the 12,000-member Orange County Employees Association, when union chief Nick Berardino allegedly “verbally abused and physically threatened with violence” county negotiators, County CEO Mike Giancola wrote in a letter to OCEA Friday. OCEA represents rank-and-file employees, according to the OC Register.
The county is filing a formal assault complaint with the Santa Ana Police Department, according to the letter. Officials also will try to bar Berardino from future negotiations, will not meet at OCEA offices, and will provide security during future sessions, the letter adds.
Here are a few more details about Berardino’s shameful behavior: Continue reading
Nick Berardino, General Manager of the Orange County Employees Association will be the featured luncheon speaker at the next quarterly lunch meeting of the Independent Special Districts of Orange County (ISDOC), on Thursday, May 30, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., at the MWDOC/OCWD Board Room.
Berardino will discuss ‘Effective Communication and Bargaining During Labor Negotiations.’ Continue reading
The Orange County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting on Tuesday to select contractors for the County’s Information Technology equipment, specifically computer services (Scope 1) and phone services (Scope 2). By a 4-1 vote, the Board directed staff to negotiate with SAIC as the primary vendor and HP as the secondary for Scope 1, according to a newsletter emailed yesterday by Supervisor Shawn Nelson.
Nelson also reported that the Supervisors unanimously approved the County staff recommendation to negotiate with Xerox as the primary and Verizon as the secondary vendor for Scope 2 services. Staff will return to the Board of Supervisors at a later date for approval of the negotiated contracts.
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reports thirteen separate instances of misconduct by SAIC, including: Continue reading
You can’t trust OCEA labor boss Nick Berardino to deal with the O.C. $4 billion pension debt!
John Moorlach’s Email Update, July 16, 2012
By: John Moorlach
Not too long ago, Nick Berardino sent out an e-mail to the members of the Orange County Employees Association stating that the Board of Supervisors wanted to reduce employee salaries by 16 percent. The claim is not true and the Board found it very disingenuous. Therefore, on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, I sent out an e-mail to all of the employees about our “total compensation” negotiating policy. Many employees expressed an interest in having numbers provided about their bargaining unit, as opposed to the average for all of the County’s 17,000 employees. Consequently, I have provided these graphs in recent UPDATES. The OC Register has enjoyed the UPDATES and today’s issue has a piece that is an aggregation of recent Watchdog Blog postings. Continue reading
You can’t trust OCEA labor boss Nick Berardino to deal with the O.C. $4 billion pension debt!
“Just as county leaders begin labor negotiations, there’s talk about the potential of seeking pension ballot measures like those seen earlier this month in San Jose and San Diego,” according to the labor-funded Voice of OC.
Apparently John Moorlach, the chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, has asked County Counsel Nick Chrisos to brief supervisors at Tuesday’s meeting about the terms of the measures in both cities as well as the legal challenges already arising from labor groups. Continue reading