Author: Cindy Love

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Education Association, the Union representing over 4,500 educators in Columbus City Schools, issued the following statement today in response to recent violence in Columbus neighborhoods spilling into schools: As the 2022-2023 school year draws to a close, educators and students in Columbus City Schools have a lot to celebrate. The…

Today, representatives of the Columbus City Schools Board of Education and the Columbus Education Association (CEA) filed a Joint Petition for Amendment of Certification with the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) to add Building Substitutes to the CEA bargaining unit. “Together with the Columbus Education Association, the Board of Education has voluntarily agreed to add…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – April 4, 2023 –Columbus City Schools Building Substitutes announced today that they have formed a Union with the Columbus Education Association. This afternoon, Building Substitutes filed authorization cards with the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) signed by a supermajority of the nearly 300 eligible educators, seeking formal recognition of their new union….

COLUMBUS, Ohio – January 4, 2023 – In a major victory for Columbus students and educators, Arbitrator Cynthia Stanley has sustained CEA’s grievance regarding nine positions in the District’s Project Connect program. Project Connect employees work primarily to support vulnerable and unhoused youth within the District. In July 2022, Columbus City Schools unilaterally removed these…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – September 6, 2022 – The Columbus Education Association announced today that member Regina Fuentes has been selected to represent CEA, as well as the Union’s state affiliate the Ohio Education Association, at the Communities in Action: Building a Better Ohio forum to be held at the White House in Washington, D.C. on…