Achievements

• WAGES: In 1943, OCSEA won the first across-the-board pay increase for state employees, resulting in a 10% raise.
  
  
• JOB CLASSIFICATIONS: In 1947, OCSEA conducted the first broad study on employee classifications, job descriptions and salary schedules. The result was the first comprehensive list of public employee jobs and the creation of uniform pay schedules, the latter ending pay differences in similar jobs that were as large as 210%.
  
  
• WORK WEEK: A major OCSEA undertaking involved the 40-hour work week. In 1941, hospital aides were working 72 hours a week. Although "female labor laws" that were on the books during those years stated that a woman couldn't work more than 48 hours a week, the state managers routinely violated this rule. Finally, in 1955, OCSEA helped to pass a law that for the first time gave public employees the right to a 40-hour work week.
  
  
• EMPLOYMENT SECURITY: Since the early 1990s OCSEA has been involved in Quality Services through Partnership (QStP), a joint process improvement initiative, to improve customer service, preserve public employee jobs, and empower state workers. OCSEA. The union also ushered in workforce devleopment and high performance workplace initiatives, like QStP, designed to increase our members' employment security. The Union Education Trust was established in July 2006, per new contract language.