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Congress is discussing a budget plan that would cut Medicaid for 21% of Ohioans, including children, the elderly, and 40% of births in Ohio. Medicaid helps to keep local hospitals running, plays a crucial role in supporting K-12 students, schools, and school-based health providers and families.

Click "start writing" and tell your member of Congress to oppose any legislation that cuts Medicaid, SNAP, or leaves working families behind while the rich get richer.

Tell Central Ohio Technical College to Respect Faculty and Sign Their Contract

In Congress, Trump’s allies are trying to sneak a new voucher program into a bill about taxes. But this “tuition tax credit” is nothing more than a national voucher program that also allows people like Elon Musk and Betsy DeVos to turn a profit, personally earning millions of dollars from the scheme, while our public schools, which 90 percent of all students attend, are underfunded and undermined.

Members of Congress—regardless of party—should urge President Trump to end this terrible anxiety and cruelty by reinstating the protection of schools, hospitals and churches against ICE.

CTU Committees & Directors

CTU Committee Pages

Civil, Democratic, & Human Rights (CDHR) Committee: Chair: Stephanie Henderson, s henderson@ctu279.org

Community Relations Committee: Chair: Christy Corte, ccorte@ctu279.org

Educational Issues Committee: Chair: Sara Baldassar, sbaldassar@ctu279.org

Joint Special Education Committee, Co-chair: Christy Corte, ccorte@ctu279.org

Legislative Committee: Chair: Jimmy Musser, jmusser@ctu279.org

Membership Committee: Chair: Paige Novak, pnovak@ctu279.org

Publications Committee: Chair: Earl Savage, esavage@ctu279.org

Critique: Editor: Pam Hummer

Salary & Benefits Committee: Chair: Amy Such, asuch@ctu279.org

Social Committee: Chair: Lisa Arraj, larraj@ctu279.org

CTU Director Pages

Director of Negotiations: Mary Moore, m moore@ctu279.org

Grievances: Co-Directors: Debbie Paden (dpaden @ctu279.org) & Jillian Ahrens (jahrens@ctu279.org)

Director of Member Mobilization Leaders: Jimmy Musser, jmusser@ctu279.org

Professional Issues: Director: Mark Baumgartner, mbaumgartner@ctu279.org

COPE Director: Director: Kurt Richards, krichards@ctu279.org

Bargaining Unit Director: Michelle Rzucidlo, mrzucidlo@ctu279.org

Director of Labor Management: Tracy Radich, tradich@ctu279.org

Discounted Online Graduate Courses for OFT Members

OFT, Ursuline College, and Virtual Education Software (VESi) have partnered to offer OFT members access to online courses available for graduate credit at a deeply discounted rate. The course membership is only offered to OFT members.

Learn more here or call VESi at 1-800-313-6744 for more info. There is a low annual Course Membership Fee of $275.00 per year. You may take one course each term for a total of three courses each year, and you can choose from 30 courses for recertification/pay raise purposes.

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