AFSCME
OAPSE held a membership drive this year focused on reaching both new employees and co-workers who hadn’t joined the OAPSE family in the past. Thanks to all the hard work from Local Officers, leaders, activists, and staff, we were able to sign up hundreds of new OAPSE members this year! Every Local involved put in […]
Last week, at the end of the 2024-25 school year, OAPSE held a drawing to pick winners from the 2025 Membership Drive. This year’s membership drive has a huge success! Local leaders and activists worked for months talking to and educating both new and current employees about all the benefits available when you become a […]
On May 28th, OAPSE Making a Difference (OMAD), the Ohio Association of Public School Employees’ non-profit organization, was in Akron City Schools helping with the nutritional needs of students in the district. Working with the Akron Schools administration, OMAD identified two elementary schools facing significant food security challenges in the district. Members from the Ohio […]
With the Social Security Fairness Act signed into law, OAPSE retirees and other Ohioans collecting a public pension will now be receiving the FULL Social Security benefits they have EARNED. OAPSE retirees are even receiving back pay for the unfair cuts to their Social Security checks over the past year. Retirees are seeing checks from […]
OAPSE and AFSCME members fought for decades to repeal the unfair GPO and WEP provisions that cut Social Security benefits for retirees who worked in the public sector. The Social Security Fairness Act ended these devastating cuts. This week, the Social Security Administration announced it will “immediately” begin paying retroactive benefits and increasing monthly benefits […]