Taking a stand for the middle class - OCSEA

In Solidarity, we win
CHRISTOPHER MABE
President
Between fighting
privatization, lobbying
for our pensions,
fighting for a member’s
right to run for the state
House of Representatives and
trying to get a redistricting
measure on the ballot, it’s
been as busy this year, as it
was last year.
Last year, we saved collective
bargaining with our
defeat of Senate Bill 5. This
year, we’ve been working
just as hard to save members’
jobs.
The Kasich administration
continues to plow forward
with plans to privatize anything
not nailed down. But
mostly, the governor’s not
making the kind of headway
he thought he would. OCSEA
activists deserve the credit
for that.
For one, a plan to privatize
Ohio’s rest areas didn’t turn
up one bid. ODOT put out
a “Request For Proposal”
for six of the 59 rest areas it
is seeking to privatize--but
didn’t have one taker. We
know it’s a bad deal for business,
it’s a bad deal for jobs
and it’s a bad deal for motorists.
Now, even the private
sector believes it’s a bad deal
for them (page 12).
This is not the only time
Kasich tried to sell off state
assets without getting anyone
to bite. While he eventually
got Corrections Corporations
of America to buy the
Conneaut prison, the original
proposal was to sell off five
prisons. But only one private
company took the bait.
That’s because this
union and our
activists have
kept up the pressure.
Even though,
public sector
workers continue
to suffer unprecedented
attacks,
OCSEA is out there
fighting--in the
news media, in the
courtroom and on Main
Street to keep quality
public services.
We’ve filed a lawsuit
against the state on behalf
of the families for privatizing
the two prisons (page
2). We’ve been down at the
Statehouse fighting for your
pensions, and on the street
corners around the state getting
petitions signed for fairer
legislative districts (pages
8-9).
Anti-labor legislators have
been drooling at the chance
to cut our pension plans and
turn them into 401K-type
plans. But now, the State
Senate has finally passed a
measure (and the House will
be taking it up soon) based
on the recommendations of
the pension board of trustees
that will enable us to keep
our defined benefit plan.
“It's only in
Solidarity that we
can continue to have
wins for working
families. ”
~ OCSEA Pres.
Christopher Mabe
And as of this writing,
Voters First Ohio has submitted
more than 750,000 signatures
to get a measure on the
fall ballot that will make the
redistricting process fair and
citizen-driven.
We also have an OCSEA
member who took the
ultimate bullet. Charlie
Daniels, a Correction Officer
at Belmont Correctional
Institution, decided to
run for the Ohio House of
Representatives, even knowing
he would lose
his job. But state employees
shouldn’t be treated as
second-class citizens. Just
because you work for the
State, doesn't mean you give
up your voice. So we are
fighting for all the Charlie
Daniels’s of this state, too,
because it’s the right thing
to do.
Finally, for the first time in
30 years, our affiliate organization,
AFSCME, voted in a
new International President.
Ohio native Lee Saunders
was tapped to lead this great
union and we couldn’t be
more proud.
None of this would be
possible without your efforts
and without us all working
together. It’s only in
Solidarity that we can continue
to have wins for working
families.
WILLIAMS
DEFIANCE
PAULDING
VAN WERT
MERCER
DARKE
FULTON
HENRY
PUTNAM
AUGLAIZE
SHELBY
MIAMI
CLARK
HAMILTON
LOCAL
Ohio Civil Service
Employees Association
ALLEN
LOGAN
LUCAS
OCSEA
DISTRICT 1
WOOD
HANCOCK
HARDIN
CHAMPAIGN
UNION
DELAWARE
OCSEA
DISTRICT 6
MADISON
FAYETTE
OTTAWA
SANDUSKY
SENECA
HOLMES
CARROLL
JEFFER-
TUSCARAWAS
SON
HARRISON
COSHOCTON
OCSEA
DISTRICT 5
GUERNSEY BELMONT
MUSKINGUM
ASH-
WYANDOT CRAWFORD
LAND
RICHLAND
MARION
FRANKLIN
ROSS
ERIE
MORROW
HURON
FAIRFIELD
KNOX
LICKING
HOCKING
VINTON
PERRY
ATHENS
HIGHLAND
MEIGS
PIKE
JACKSON
CLERMONT
OCSEA
DISTRICT 9
BROWN
GALLIA
ADAMS
SCIOTO
AFL-CIO
President
Christopher Mabe
Vice President
Kelvin Jones
Secretary-Treasurer Kathleen M. Stewart
Board of Directors:
District 1: Kate Callahan (ODOT),
Shawn Gruber (DR&C), Jerry Lugo (ODJFS)
District 2: Carrie Johnson (MH),
Michelle Hunter (MR)
District 3: Doug Mosier (DR&C), Bob Valentine
(ODOT)
District 4: Bruce Thompson (DYS),
Doug Sollitto (DR&C)
District 5: Cindy Bobbitt (ODJFS), Vacancy
District 6: Laura Morris (Health), Shirley Hubbert
(BWC), Louella Jeter (ODPS), Debra King-
Hutchinson (ODJFS), Annie Person (DYS),
Tim Roberts (DR&C), Amy Turner (ODOT),
John Anthony (Taxation) Gerard "Rocky" Jolly
(School for Blind), Vacancy
District 7: James LaRocca (Lottery),
Lawrence McKissic (BWC)
District 8: A.J. Frame (DR&C), Beth Sheets
(ODMR/DD)
District 9: Mal Corey (DR&C), Jeff Condo (OVH)
Retiree Representative: Ron Alexander
OCSEA Headquarters:
390 Worthington Road, Ste. A, Westerville, Oh
43082
Live Operator: 614-865-4700 or 800-969-4702
Automated Dial: 614-865-2678 or 800-266-
5615
Fax: 614-865-4777
Web site: www.ocsea.org
Customer Service: 888-OCSEA-11
(888-627-3211)
OCSEA Public Employee Quarterly (USPS
010-112) is published quarterly for $6 by the
Ohio Civil Service Employees Association,
390 Worthington Road, Suite A, Westerville,
OH 43082. Periodicals postage paid at
Westerville, OH and additional mailing offices.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the
Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, 390
Worthington Road, Suite A, Westerville, OH
43082.
OCSEA Public Employee Quarterly is produced
by the OCSEA Communications Department:
Sally Meckling, Director; Deirdre O’Neill-Wedig,
Pattie Boy, Ana Goodlet, Associates.
To update email and other contact information
go to:
www.ocsea.org/update or call 800-969-4702.
LAKE
ASHTABULA
OCSEA
DISTRICT 7
CUYAHOGA
GEAUGA
TRUMBULL
LORAIN
PORTAGE
MEDINA
OCSEA
SUMMIT DISTRICT 4
OCSEA
DISTRICT 3
MAHONING
WAYNE
MONT-
PREBLE GOMERY
GREENE
OCSEA
DISTRICT 2
BUTLER
WARREN CLINTON
MORGAN
OCSEA
DISTRICT 8
NOBLE
STARK
WASHINGTON
MONROE
COLUMBIANA
LAWRENCE
6 Public Employee Quarterly Summer 2012