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WageWorks updates members on Consumer-Directed Benefits
May 8, 2020
For members who participate in WageWorks Consumer-Directed Benefits, please note that there have been several updates as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AFSCME launches ad campaign Congressional relief
May 6, 2020
OCSEA Brother in Corrections Bill Rager is participating in a national ad campaign to talk about what prison workers are facing here in Ohio during the pandemic.

New free Criminal Justice bachelor's offers three areas of study
May 6, 2020
OCSEA and its partners in free college announced the newest free bachelor's degrees for members. The newest degree has three areas of study: law enforcement, judicial and corrections

Governor announces pandemic state budget cuts
May 5, 2020
Governor announces pandemic state budget cuts instead of tapping into Rainy Day Fund.

Tuesday, May 5 Union Coronavirus Update
May 5, 2020
Latest updates on COVID-19 including $775 million dollar budget hole which could impact Medicaid spending, education and local government for the last two months of the fiscal year, plus $100 million cuts total for all state agencies with the exception of DR&C.

State & local aid: Growing need demands growing action
May 5, 2020
Demand that Congress fund state and local governments so that we can fight the COVID-19 pandemic and re-open our economy

Friday, May 1 Union Coronavirus Update
May 1, 2020
Union's latest update on coronavirus pandemic

Criminal Justice bachelor's degree is here!
May 1, 2020
OCSEA is excited to announced the FREE College bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice starting this summer!

UPDATED! FREE bachelor’s degree extended through June 22
May 1, 2020
OCSEA’s partner in Free College will be expanding their Free College offering to Central State University’s (CSU) bachelor’s degree for members and family members who enroll for the May 18 semester.

Tuesday, April 28 Union Coronavirus Update
April 28, 2020
Get the latest OCSEA update on COVID-19 including PPE delivery and the loss of Correction union family member Tina Reeves.

Union activists remember Pickaway nurse lost to COVID-19
April 28, 2020
The unrelenting COVID crisis has, tragically, taken the life of another Corrections employee, a cherished LPN from Pickaway Correctional.

Workers Memorial Day means even more in a pandemic
April 28, 2020
Honoring those who made this ultimate sacrifice on the job this Workers Memorial Day.

ODJFS members: We must invest in public job programs & staff
April 21, 2020
Our OCSEA sisters and brothers in ODJFS are working long and tiring days to support Unemployment Services (UI) for newly unemployed Ohioans, and they are doing it with care and with dignity. But, they, too, are overwhelmed...

Tuesday, April 21 union COVID-19 update
April 21, 2020
OCSEA's biweekly COVID-19 update discusses the need for investment in Unemployment and Job programs, talks about prison hot spots overwhelmed by Coronavirus and what needs to be done and more.

Marion, two other prisons considered national hot spots
April 21, 2020
Last week, the administration began testing all inmate and staff at three of Ohio's hot spot prisons, which has raised concerns about how widespread the COVID-19 really is in Ohio.

Union scholarship deadline extended to June 15
April 21, 2020
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, OCSEA has extended the OCSEA Les Best Scholarship deadline to June 15, 2020.

Friday, April 17 union COVID-19 update
April 17, 2020
OCSEA is calling on DR&C to accept help from the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to relieve critical staffing levels.The union continues to call for increased testing of staff, adequate number of masks, fair compensation, including $8 an hour in emergency pay, more limited movement inside the prisons and a seat at the table over any policy changes, including schedules.

Flattening the curve? Not in Ohio's prisons
April 17, 2020
OCSEA is calling on DR&C to accept help from the National Guard IMMEDIATELY to relieve critical staffing levels. The union continues to call for increased testing of staff, adequate number of masks, fair compensation, including $8 an hour in emergency pay, more limited movement inside the prisons and a seat at the table over any policy changes, including schedules.

AFSCME continues call to #FundTheFrontlines
April 17, 2020
It’s become clear that relief bills Congress has approved thus far, including the record $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, won’t be enough to quell the health and economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But AFSCME has recommendations...

Public Purpose: Returning Public Service to the Spotlight
April 17, 2020
If anything constructive has begun to come out of our current pandemic crisis, it has been the positive spotlight on public services and the essential duties and expertise of our public employee union members who serve and protect Ohioans every day, crisis or not.