COLUMBUS, Ohio – August 5, 2022 – Members of the Columbus Education Association (CEA) met last evening for an update from their bargaining team. The meeting culminated with CEA voting overwhelmingly to issue a 10-day strike notice. “The vote tonight is a vote of confidence in our bargaining team and our fight for the safe,…
Author: Cindy Love
BREAKING: #ColumbusStudentsDeserve
With nearly a month before the expiration of our Master Agreement, Columbus City Schools has walked away from Bargaining and the schools #ColumbusStudentsDeserve.
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…