OCOPE

12/06/2018

OCOPE GIVES BACK
At our membership meeting Tuesday, 12/11, we will be collecting donations for Toys for Tots and Oberlin Community Services.
Members who wish to donate to Toys for Tots can bring new, unwrapped toys for boys, girls and babies (ages 0-14) and/or non-perishable food items for Oberlin Community Services. Some items on their "wish list" include canned goods, dry pasta, cereal, oatmeal, peanut butter, jelly, tuna, rice, crackers. Cans with pull top lids and microwavable items are especially helpful to the homeless or people without kitchen facilities.
Donations can also be dropped off with any board member or steward before noon Tuesday, 12/11.
Thank you in advance for your contributions this holiday season!

09/02/2018

09/02/2018

Lorain county labor day celebration. Come on down!

06/09/2018

Eliza Guinn, you are awesome! CONGRATULATIONS & best of luck to you.

06/09/2018

Congratulations MICHAEL KENNEDY!!
One of our biggest supporters. Good luck Michael.

05/24/2018

2018 Solidarity Picnic
OCOPE members gathered at the annual solidarity picnic May 16, to celebrate the end of the school year.
Each member in attendance received a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of the items from Donald A. Schuster Greenhouse. Jennifer Schreiner was our big winner! She won the Japanese maple tree donated by Don Mould’s Plantation.
Raffle winners:
Pat Stull, Donna Young and Ellen Broadwell - flowering pot Michael Palazzolo - lettuce planter
Sara Hasley - metal butterfly
Refreshments and snacks were provided by the Solidarity Committee.

05/18/2018

Earlier this week the OCOPE executive board was notified by the College that four bargaining unit positions would be eliminated effective June 30. A member holding one of those positions was notified Tuesday afternoon. After consulting OPEIU and our attorney, the board wrote HR, President Ambar, Dean Elgren, and members of senior staff to ask that they suspend further action and notifications until OCOPE could discuss other ways to avoid job losses with the College. Board members met with the College on Wednesday, but they rejected our appeal and notified the other three members this morning.
There are several open positions at this time, and it is our sincere hope that no displaced members will be out of work. The OCOPE Board will continue to look for other solutions and insist that our members' contractual rights are upheld. We ask that all members remain vigilant and immediately report any students and/or A&PS doing our bargaining unit work.

In Solidarity,
Tracy Tucker

04/05/2017

OCOPE and SLAC (Student Labor Action Coalition) are working together to plan a silent protest action on Wednesday, 4/5 at noon. OCOPE members and students will gather outside Craig Lecture Hall in the Science Center tomorrow before the start of the noon College Faculty meeting where the indefinite suspension of faculty research status will be discussed.
Budget cuts started with OCOPE positions being eliminated, and now faculty research status is being suspended. What is happening to the learning and labor at Oberlin College?

We hope you will join us in solidarity.

Students will carry signs:
First they came for OCOPE jobs,
and I did not speak out –
Because I was not OCOPE.
Then they came for FACULTY...

03/12/2017

To the Editors: It has come to our attention that incorrect information about Oberlin College Office and Professional Employees continues to spread across campus. We know the source of much of this…

03/11/2017

It was necessary to "comment" on this article to correct some of the facts. Hopefully it is posted soon.
https://oberlinreview.org/13006/news/ocope-files-unfair-labor-practices-complaint/

Oberlin College Offices and Profession Employees filed a charge of unfair labor practices against the College with the National Labor Relations Board Feb. 21, specifying that the College failed to …

03/05/2017

http://oberlinreview.org/12887/opinions/ocope-clarifies-facts/

To the Editors: It has come to our attention that incorrect information about Oberlin College Office and Professional Employees continues to spread across campus. We know the source of much of this…

03/01/2017

OCOPE Solidarity Committee
Spotlight on the Collection: SOLIDARITY FOREVER! LABOR UNIONS FROM INDUSTRY TO CAMPUS
The display located on the main floor of Mudd Library, will be on view until March 17th.