Orange County

Organized Labor Celebration: Reviving a tradition that has been dormant for more than a decade, union leaders in Orange County will meet today in Anaheim to celebrate Labor Day. Among the speakers expected for the 8 a.m. breakfast gathering at the Inn at the Park hotel are Assemblywoman Grace F. Napolitano (D-Norwalk) and Gaddi H. Vasquez, who is stepping down later this month as chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors after receiving a barrage of criticism when the county became the largest municipality in the United States to declare bankruptcy. Vasquez, a well-known Republican, is scheduled to depart Sept. 22, some 15 months before his term expires. He won his first full term of office in 1988, becoming California’s highest elected Latino official in the Republican Party at the time. Orange County’s Central Labor Council, which represents most of the county’s 100,000 union members, is sponsoring the morning gathering. “It’s to revitalize the labor movement,” said Bill Fogarty, the council’s head. “It’s time for labor to start doing some traditional things again.”