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Get ready for voting! Important post card coming soon

Posted May 30, 2024 by

Contract voting informational post card coming soon!

Coming soon to your home mailbox!!! Look for a very important post card on contract voting in the mail coming in early June. That post card will include the link to the OCSEA website with each chapter's specific voting dates, times and locations

A MyOCSEA account will be required to access this voting information. To prepare, please double check your MyOCSEA account today. Make sure you can login to your MyOCSEA account at ocsea.org so you can access your chapter's voting information.

Remember: Only active, dues-paying members can vote on the Tentative Agreement and Fact Finder's Report. If you know someone who is a non-member who wants to vote on the contract, let them know they can sign a card online or at the chapter voting location.

Have questions or need to update your contact information? Contact the OCSEA Member Resource Center (MRC) at 888-OCSEA-11 or MRC@ocsea.org. Contact your chapter leaders if you have questions specific to contract voting. The MRC can put you in touch with your chapter leaders. Get updates at OCSEA.org/bargaining.

 

Get early access to news. Sign up for bargaining text alerts!

Want to be the first to get upcoming contract news, including early access to the Tentative Agreement and Fact Finder's Report? Sign up for OCSEA Contract Bargaining text alerts today! 

It's easy! Text OCSEA2024 to 237-263.

The TA and Fact Finder's Reports reports will be available to all members on the OCSEA website at the same time, but by signing up for text alerts you will get early access to the link right from your cell phone as soon as it's ready. Members who are not signed up for text alerts will receive the report links over personal email. Make sure your personal email is up-to-date HERE.

 

Important dates:

  • JUNE 10: The Tentative Agreement (T.A.) will be sent out digitally to all members. The Fact Finders report will not be included with this email.

  • JUNE 19: Fact Finder’s Report deadline.

  • JUNE 21: Fact Finder’s Report sent to all members.

  • JUNE 24: Zoom webinar road shows start at noon. Chapter contract voting can commence this day following the end of the first road show (approximately 1 p.m.).

  • July 5: Voting deadline (all votes due from chapters to OCSEA by noon)  
              
  • JULY 11: Current contract extended to this date.

More on upcoming contract voting

OCSEA chapters will have until Friday, July 5 at noon to vote on the OCSEA Contract Tentative Agreement and Fact Finder’s Report. Please note, the Fact Finder's report HAS NOT been released yet. The Fact Finder's deadline is June 19.

 

Voting will begin once the following has occurred:

  • OCSEA releases a booklet of the Fact Finder’s Report over email to all active union members. This will go out on Friday, June 21 to personal emails on file with the Union.
  • OCSEA holds the first of two virtual Road Shows over Zoom (leaders should attend at least one before holding voting). The two Road shows will take place on Monday, June 24 at noon AND 7 p.m. to discuss the report directly with members. Links for the Zooms will be sent through email and posted on the OCSEA website.

Once the first OCSEA Roadshow has ended, chapter leaders will start holding in-person contract voting events for their chapter members. Each chapter will be responsible for holding their own voting event. Please look for a very important post card from the union on voting in the mail coming in early June. That post card will include the link to the OCSEA website with each chapter's specific voting dates, times and locations.

To prepare, please double check your MyOCSEA account today. Make sure you can login to your MyOCSEA account at ocsea.org so you can access chapter voting information. This information will only be available by logging on to your MyOCSEA account.


Remember: Only active, dues-paying members can vote on the Tentative Agreement and fact Finder's Report. If you know someone who is a non-member who wants to vote on the contract, let them know they can sign a
card online or at the chapter voting location.


Have questions or need to update your contact information? Contact the OCSEA Member Resource Center (MRC) at 888-OCSEA-11 or
MRC@ocsea.org. Contact your chapter leaders if you have questions specific to contract voting. The MRC can put you in touch with your chapter leaders.