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Update April 16, 2019 Striking members of OAPSE Local 390 at Claymont City Schools are headed back to work after spring break. Union members voted 2-1 to approve a contract. The Claymont School Board also voted to approve the new agreement. Local 390 extends its sincere appreciation to all the OAPSE members who joined them […]
Robin Pratt has been driving a school bus for Vinton County Local Schools for 25 years. She also runs a 65-acre farm. Robin is busy taking care of her family, her land and animals, and the students who ride on her bus each day. But she still finds time to go to college with the […]
Each year, OAPSE members, leaders, staff and community partners give back to the areas in which we live and work by feeding hungry children. Through the OAPSE Making a Difference, Inc. foundation (OMAD), union members have raised more than $60,000 and fed 10,000 students in schools across Ohio. This year, we will distribute totes of […]
Barb Ward has been driving a bus for Fairland Local Schools for nearly 40 years — logging more than a million miles behind the wheel. Her mother, the first woman bus driver at Fairland, taught her how to drive along the winding, narrow roads of Southern Ohio. And Barb taught her daughter and union sister, […]
OAPSE Local 591 Member Trent Hunt and his wife, Stephanie, have encouraged their sons to be active and healthy since they were small children. That enthusiasm for fitness led twins Kingston and Solomon to jump in the pool at an early age to take swimming lessons. Miles and miles and laps and laps later, the […]