2009 Convention
OCSEA / AFSCME 28th Biennial Convention

OFFICIAL CONVENTION CALL:
Letter to all Subordinate Body Presidents & Secretaries (PDF)

THEME:
Get on Board to Save Our Services

DATE: Aug. 13 - 15, 2009

LOCATION:
Duke Energy Convention Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

HOTEL RESERVATIONS:
UPDATE: Lodging is no longer available at the Millennium Hotel Cincinnati, 150 West 5th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The overflow hotel for the OCSEA convention is the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati, 151 West 5th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. You may contact the hotel at 513-579-1234. The rate is $96.00.

The deadline to reserve a room from OCSEA's block was July 8, 2009.

Hotel Contact Info
150 West 5th St.,
Cincinnati, OH
513-352-2100
Hotel Website

Room Rates:
$  91.26 single occupancy
$108.81 double occupancy

ELECTIONS: Check website calendars: MAY | JUNE | JULY
Pursuant to the Constitution, the official count of delegates for this year’s Convention cannot be certified until June 18.  Because it would be extremely late for Chapters to wait until June 18 to elect their delegates for an August 13 Convention, we are advising Chapters of the probable number of delegates they will be entitled to send. Chapters should proceed to elect delegates to the OCSEA Convention—pursuant to the AFSCME Elections Code and our Constitution and By-Laws—based on the estimate of probable delegates indicated below.
SUBMIT MEETING NOTICE REQUEST

DELEGATE COUNTS:
The official Convention Call letter was sent to all subordinate body presidents and secretaries on Friday, April 17. Another mailing confirming the number of delegates the body is entitled to send to convention will be mailed out on or about June 22, 2009.

QUESTIONS:  If you have any questions regarding the convention, please contact Gina Ison at 614-865-4706, 1-800-266-5615, ext. 4706, or gison@ocsea.org.

EVENT REGISTRATION: All delegates and alternates must register on the enclosed forms.  The white delegate form and/or the canary alternate form must be returned to the OCSEA Central office no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 17, 2009.  In  order to facilitate the processing of registration forms and the appointment of Convention committees, we ask you to send delegate and alternate forms sooner if possible. All registrations must be accompanied with a check for the appropriate amount. The Convention Registration fee is $80. 

LATE REGISTRATION: Registrations received after July 17 will be considered late registrations and no delegates, except automatic delegates, will not be seated until after the Credentials Committee makes its report.  (This involves a trip to the Credentials Committee to get your status resolved and then waiting for the Convention body to accept the Credentials Committee report before you can be issued a delegate’s badge and seated as a delegate.)

See Related

Call Letter to all Subordinate Body Presidents & Secretaries (PDF)

August 2009 Events

OCSEA Events

Hotel Website