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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, shenderson@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, mmoore@ctu279.org

    GrievancesCo-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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