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Dispelling theMyths…How MuchOEA’s Proposal WillCost YOU
OEA President Pat Frost-Brooks, her fellow OEA
Officers Bill Leibensperger and Jim Timlin, and
Executive Director Larry Wicks are selling lies and
half-truths to their local leader-members in the
midnight memorandum they sent to the OEA Board
of Directors, District Leaders and Local Presidents
on August 31. (If you haven’t seen it, it’s because
explicit instructions in the first paragraph read
“This memo is for your information. It is not to be
distributed or forwarded.” Yes, that includes those
In it, OEA attempted to publicize the bargaining
positions of the parties. Sounds like a tactic you’ve
probably seen school boards use, doesn’t it? In
fact, it is exactly like the Unfair Labor Practice that
the Harrison Hills board committed during the
2007 strike that the Harrison Hills Teachers’
Association just won in a decision from SERB last
Don’t believe their anti-union propaganda. The
truth is, OEA largely refused to participate in the
bargaining process from the beginning. They
refused to sign basic ground rules which had
agreed-upon in numerous years past. They didn’t
present PSU with a single written counter-proposal
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until August 24 – five sessions after bargaining
The dis-informative midnight memorandum also
said that PSU’s proposal would increase dues by
$80-$90. The reality is that raising dues that
much would generate more than ten million dollars
– double the amount OEA tossed out during
bargaining about PSU’s initial proposal. What
would OEA do with the remaining dollars??
(Besides, we all know that initial proposals are just
So, while the OEA Officers and administrators focus
on trying to mislead you about how much PSU’s
proposal will allegedly cost OEA members, let’s talk
It’s not hard to believe OEA would leave out some
of the most incendiary and anti-Union parts of their
proposal for PSU, namely the ones which would
have tremendous consequences for local leaders
One example is OEA’s insistence on removing
transfer protections for PSU members. Imagine that
one year your district assigns you to teach 8th
grade science. The next year, they move you to 1st
grade. The year after that, they reassign you once
again to 5th grade reading. Sound like a recipe for
But while even that may be possible to imagine,
consider that PSU members work all over the state.
So, to continue using our example, one year you
would teach in Parma. The next year, you would
teach in Defiance. And the year after that, you
would teach in Athens! Meanwhile, your working
spouse and kids would be either expected to follow
you or live without you. In a statewide organization
such as OEA, transfer-at-will simply does not work,
to say nothing of being totally contrary to being a
If PSU concedes to what Wicks and his cronies
demand, locals will face constant chaos! Your local
could have a new LRC every year. Imagine how that
would impact the services you receive from PSU
members! To further complicate matters, nothing
in OEA’s proposal would prevent Wicks from
moving our PSU headquarters members out into the
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field to LRC positions or vice versa.
Certainly your LRC is more effective having
developed relationships with you and your
members. And of course their ability to facilitate
understanding and apply pressure to your school
administration and school boards increases with
time spent working with your local? Transfer-
at-will would make that a near impossibility.
This is just one example of the OTHER issues PSU is
standing up and fighting on behalf of Union Values
for, and if you think about it, it directly impacts
YOU. The same thing holds true for the OEA
Officer/administrator proposals on seniority, union
representation, and job security. At the very least,
think of the ‘field day’ school boards and their
greedy attorneys will have if OEA is allowed to treat
If you agree, then take action! Contact YOUR OEA
elected Officers and the Executive Director now and
demand they settle the PSU strike fairly and end the
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