EAA

Strength In Unity

EAA represents approximately 5,100 City employees who are employed in every City department and Bureau and work at almost every one of the City’s 1,200 locations. Our members are involved in every aspect of service to the citizens of this great city. EAA hires only the most-qualified and dedicated individuals for its professional staff. This provides the maximum benefit for members and engenders respect from their counterparts at the City. EAA utilizes the same care in its selection of outside assistance, employing the finest labor legal counsel in southern California and using only union shops for its printing and consulting needs.

The level of salary, benefits, and job protection currently enjoyed by City employees is a direct result of EAA's bargaining for those salaries and benefits. EAA has returned from the bargaining table with respectable wages, quality medical and retirement benefits, and excellent protection of its members' jobs. In recent years, EAA has stepped to the forefront in demanding fair treatment for all and in addressing the disparity in wages and benefits between the DWP and other City departments.

In recent years, EAA has renewed its dedication to the larger labor community. EAA actively joins with its fellow unions in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Coalition, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Harry Bridges Institute, and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

EAA members hit a high-water mark in 2006. For the first time in their history, they emphatically rejected a contract offer from City management. Their subsequent job actions garnered great respect in the labor community of Southern California and produced a landmark contract agreement well in advance of the normal time frame for agreement.

As a result of the members' demonstrated strength, a new era of cooperation is taking form between EAA and management through the mechanism of "mutual-gains bargaining". The cooperation was most recently demonstrated in the 2010 MOU's in which both parties recognized that sustainability for the future is beneficial to all. Additionally, all bargaining units are now covered by Fair Share (Agency Shop) provisions ensuring that the costs of representation are fairly shared by all. We are confident that the best is still to come.