Niyaz Priani is the Communications/Social Media Organizer for the Orange County Employees Association

Union Members Restore Battleship USS Iowa to Commemorate Veterans Day

by Niyaz Priani
crew for a day, scrubbing down bunks and cleaning walls in the 72-year-old battleship.

More than 40 members of Southern California’s labor unions—including Orange County Employees Association, United Food and Commercial Workers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and several others—came to commemorate Veterans Day and honor our nation’s heroes by giving back.

OCEA launches “Working People Standing Together” series to highlight public service

by Niyaz Priani

by Niyaz Pirani

Orange County’s public employees are the backbone of County government. They keep streets safe and clean, and provide vital services the community needs. Unfortunately, politicians and their corporate backers have not let up on their attacks on workers, eroding the middle class our grandparents’ generation built brick by brick. And they’re doing it for their own political gain.