With nearly a month before the expiration of our Master Agreement, Columbus City Schools has walked away from Bargaining and the schools #ColumbusStudentsDeserve.
Author: Cindy Love
CEA to Rally on Wednesday after Board Refuses to Schedule Bargaining Sessions
CEA Remains Resolute to Fight for the Schools Columbus Students Deserve. COLUMBUS, Ohio – July 26, 2022 – Frustrated by the District’s refusal to schedule future bargaining sessions with the Union, members of the Columbus Education Association (CEA) will rally outside of the Board’s offices at 270 E. State Street from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00…
An open letter to the Columbus City Schools Board and Superintendent from Project Connect’s Vulnerable Youth Staff
We, the members of Project Connect, write to communicate to you the profound professional and personal effects of the move to overhaul our positions from CEA bargaining-unit positions to civil service, non-union positions. You are aware by now that we believe these actions violated both our CEA contract and state law. What legal filings won’t…
CEA Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge After District’s Decision to Strip Homeless Youth Advocates of Union Status and Contract Protections
COLUMBUS, OH – July 8, 2022 – Today, the Columbus Education Association (CEA) filed an unfair labor practice charge with the State Employment Relations Board alleging that the district has illegally reassigned educators whose primary job assignment is to advocate for homeless youth from their union positions to non-union positions and has effectively stripped these…
Columbus Teachers to Rally Against Board’s Unconscionable, Illegal Decision to Strip Homeless Youth Advocates of Union Status and Contract Protections
COLUMBUS, Ohio – June 21, 2022 – Frustrated by the District’s unilateral decision to remove its members in the Project Connect program from the union against a backdrop of attacks on teachers and students at the bargaining table, the Columbus Education Association will rally at 4:30 p.m. outside of today’s Board of Education meeting. Authorized…