As a pastor and OCSEA
activist from Dayton,
Bryan Weaver believes
in practicing what you preach.
Bryan is an Infrastructure
Specialist 2 with the Ohio
Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol (ODPS). He is
also a steward for Montgomery
Chapter 5700, a job he takes very
seriously. He’s passionate about
being union and advocating for
worker fairness, not just on the
job but in every aspect of his
life. He is all about spreading the
“union gospel,” he says.
“When America was its
greatest, it was about WE
not ME and when unions
were powerful. Advocacy
is where we can make the
most difference,” said Bryan
He says being union is what
helped get him where he is today,
and he can’t stress it enough. “A public union job gives
people who may not have gone
to college or learned a trade
the chance to be treated fairly
and with respect. There are still
spaces in society that will give
people pride and respectability,
and I truly believe that union
jobs are the last space for this,”
said Bryan. “I don’t know if I had
gone anywhere else, if I would
have been as successful in life. It
opened so many doors,” he said.
Read Bryan's story at OCSEA.org/PEQ.