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OCSEA fanned quality flames until hope of new administration could become reality
Union now seeks members to talk about quality at chapter meetings

April 30, 2007 - Quality was a hot topic at the April 20 - 21 Building Union Power 7 event. In his state of the union, OCSEA Executive Director Andy Douglas indicated that the union had worked hard to keep quality alive until a new administration would re-embrace this results-oriented labor-management partnership.

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In addition, more than 90 attendees completed surveys at the Union Quality Network's booth and shared their views on how:

• Governor Strickland might get started working with the union on re energizing quality;
• Chapter leadership can become engaged in quality with management; and
• Union members can identify if their agency is becoming more involved in quality.

The Union Quality Network will spend time reviewing the responses from the leadership and offer survey feedback on the union's quality website.

Two lucky members’ names were drawn for a $25 gas card.  They recipients are:

• Larry Stiles, DAS; Chapter 2570 DAS
• Kevin Wamsley, ODOT; Chapter 8320 Warren/Green/Clinton 

Douglas talked about the union’s long standing support of the quality partnership in Ohio. 

“We’ve continued to be on the cutting edge of quality”, Douglas said.   “OCSEA succeeded because it pushed itself to know more than management about how quality, high performance and reengineering can and can’t work, and when Taft tried to starve the quality movement to death, we had to shift gears.” 

Douglas praised OCSEA for “providing the life support to workers and enlightened managers.” He admitted that, “quality didn’t flourish – but neither did it fail [during the previous administration]. We continued to fan the embers until we found an administration who would take it seriously again.”

Your father's union exercised power by withdrawing their services. Today, off-shoring and the rate of change that exists in the 21st century requires new strategies.

The Union recognizes that through quality partnership we can understand more about the design of our work and, therefore, have a productive impact on change so that our members' interests are reflected in the new ways work needs to be accomplished.

The Union Quality Network is looking for a member in each chapter to volunteer to talk about quality at each of the chapter meetings. If you are interested in being the Quality Representative for your chapter, please contact Sandy Trout at 1-800-969-4702 ext. 2614, or send her an email now.

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Prepared Remarks of Andy Douglas delivered at the April 20-21 Building Union Power 7 event