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Important 2026 Election Dates

Make sure you know Ohio's important election dates as you prepare to cast your ballots in the spring primary and the fall general election.

Make a plan to vote

For public employee union members, elections are more than just about who makes decisions for our community. We elect our bosses. The people who sit across the table from us to bargain.

Public employees CAN participate in the democratic process

OCSEA members ask all the time: As a public employee, can I be involved in political activities? And the answer is YES!

Did you know? Congress repealed WEP and GPO under Sen. Brown's leadership

Voting our jobs and our union

VOTING OUR JOBS is how we make real progress in this nation for working people! This means prioritizing the issues that impact us as union members––in the workplace, at the bargaining table, at home, and in the communities that we serve as public employees.

I'm voting because...

Read about the issues that four OCSEA members are weighing as they prepare to head to the ballot box this election season. For them it means focusing on dignity of work, empowering public employees and lifting up the middle class from the bottom up and the middle out.

Sen. Brown Sherrod Brown champions fight to repeal WEP/GPO

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown continues to champion the fight to repeal WEP/GPO. Why? Because Sen. Brown, the incumbent candidate for Ohio's U.S. Senator, cares about public employees and their ability to retire with dignity!