Call to Action: Email Campaign

STRS Members Deserve a Voice on the STRS Board

Please share this information via email with your active and retired colleagues!

The Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT) and Ohio Conference - American Association of University Professors (OCAAUP) composed this letter for all of us to copy/paste and send to our legislators.

Copy/paste this list of Ohio representatives:

Rep01@ohiohouse.gov, Rep02@ohiohouse.gov, Rep03@ohiohouse.gov, Rep04@ohiohouse.gov, Rep05@ohiohouse.gov, Rep06@ohiohouse.gov, Rep07@ohiohouse.gov, Rep08@ohiohouse.gov, Rep09@ohiohouse.gov, Rep10@ohiohouse.gov, Rep11@ohiohouse.gov, Rep12@ohiohouse.gov, Rep13@ohiohouse.gov, Rep14@ohiohouse.gov, Rep15@ohiohouse.gov, Rep16@ohiohouse.gov, Rep17@ohiohouse.gov, Rep18@ohiohouse.gov, Rep19@ohiohouse.gov, Rep20@ohiohouse.gov, Rep21@ohiohouse.gov, Rep22@ohiohouse.gov, Rep23@ohiohouse.gov, Rep24@ohiohouse.gov, Rep25@ohiohouse.gov, Rep26@ohiohouse.gov, Rep27@ohiohouse.gov, Rep28@ohiohouse.gov, Rep29@ohiohouse.gov, Rep30@ohiohouse.gov, Rep31@ohiohouse.gov, Rep32@ohiohouse.gov, Rep33@ohiohouse.gov, Rep34@ohiohouse.gov, Rep35@ohiohouse.gov, Rep36@ohiohouse.gov, Rep37@ohiohouse.gov, Rep38@ohiohouse.gov, Rep39@ohiohouse.gov, Rep40@ohiohouse.gov, Rep41@ohiohouse.gov, Rep42@ohiohouse.gov, Rep43@ohiohouse.gov, Rep44@ohiohouse.gov, Rep45@ohiohouse.gov, Rep46@ohiohouse.gov, Rep47@ohiohouse.gov, Rep48@ohiohouse.gov, Rep49@ohiohouse.gov, Rep50@ohiohouse.gov, Rep51@ohiohouse.gov, Rep52@ohiohouse.gov, Rep53@ohiohouse.gov, Rep54@ohiohouse.gov, Rep55@ohiohouse.gov, Rep56@ohiohouse.gov, Rep57@ohiohouse.gov, Rep58@ohiohouse.gov, Rep59@ohiohouse.gov, Rep60@ohiohouse.gov, Rep61@ohiohouse.gov, Rep62@ohiohouse.gov, Rep63@ohiohouse.gov, Rep64@ohiohouse.gov, Rep65@ohiohouse.gov, Rep66@ohiohouse.gov, Rep67@ohiohouse.gov, Rep68@ohiohouse.gov, Rep69@ohiohouse.gov, Rep70@ohiohouse.gov, Rep71@ohiohouse.gov, Rep72@ohiohouse.gov, Rep73@ohiohouse.gov, Rep74@ohiohouse.gov, Rep75@ohiohouse.gov, Rep76@ohiohouse.gov, Rep77@ohiohouse.gov, Rep78@ohiohouse.gov, Rep79@ohiohouse.gov, Rep80@ohiohouse.gov, Rep81@ohiohouse.gov, Rep82@ohiohouse.gov, Rep83@ohiohouse.gov, Rep84@ohiohouse.gov, Rep85@ohiohouse.gov, Rep86@ohiohouse.gov, Rep87@ohiohouse.gov, Rep88@ohiohouse.gov, Rep89@ohiohouse.gov, Rep90@ohiohouse.gov, Rep91@ohiohouse.gov, Rep92@ohiohouse.gov, Rep93@ohiohouse.gov, Rep94@ohiohouse.gov, Rep95@ohiohouse.gov, Rep96@ohiohouse.gov, Rep97@ohiohouse.gov, Rep98@ohiohouse.gov, Rep99@ohiohouse.gov

Copy/paste this list of Ohio senators:

McColley@ohiosenate.gov, Gavarone@ohiosenate.gov, Reynolds@ohiosenate.gov, Lang@ohiosenate.gov, SHuffman@ohiosenate.gov, Blackshear@ohiosenate.gov, Wilson@ohiosenate.gov, Blessing@ohiosenate.gov, Ingram@ohiosenate.gov, Koehler@ohiosenate.gov, Hicks-Hudson@ohiosenate.gov, Manchester@ohiosenate.gov, Manning@ohiosenate.gov, Johnson@ohiosenate.gov, Craig@ohiosenate.gov, Liston@ohiosenate.gov, Wilkin@ohiosenate.gov, Cirino@ohiosenate.gov, Brenner@ohiosenate.gov, Schaffer@ohiosenate.gov, Smith@ohiosenate.gov, Romanchuk@ohiosenate.gov, Antonio@ohiosenate.gov, Patton@ohiosenate.gov, DeMora@ohiosenate.gov, Reineke@ohiosenate.gov, Roegner@ohiosenate.gov, Weinstein@ohiosenate.gov, Chavez@ohiosenate.gov, Landis@ohiosenate.gov, O'Brien@ohiosenate.gov, Cutrona@ohiosenate.gov

To:

Paste the lists into your email messages in the Bcc: field. Use Bcc: so each legislator will see only their email address. You can use your own email address in the To: field of your message.

Subject:

STRS Members Deserve a Voice on the STRS Board

Message:

Before passage of the new biennial state budget, all five public employee pension funds in Ohio had boards where a majority of the Board members were elected directly by the members of that pension fund. That ensures that public employees have a meaningful voice in managing their retirement system.

I’m disappointed that a last minute addition to the state budget stripped this meaningful voice away from educators by creating a board where appointed board members will be in the majority. This policy was not in the Governor’s budget, the House’s budget, or the Senate’s budget, which means it was passed with absolutely no hearings and no public participation.

This targeted attack on educators follows a long campaign of misinformation, anonymous allegations, and politicized investigations against elected members of the STRS Board. The fact is that STRS members have engaged in widespread grassroots activism to elect effective board members who take their fiduciary responsibilities very seriously and have only started restoring benefits – providing cost of living adjustments to retirees and lowering the years of service requirement for full retirement for active members – in situations approved by the fund’s actuary. They have also increased transparency at STRS, allowing members to have a clearer look at how their pension fund is being managed.

Now, all that progress is in jeopardy as appointed board members will be in the majority next month. Please pass legislation to reverse this unvetted legislative overreach that puts retirement security for more than 500,000 STRS members in the hands of partisan politicians.