Come Out to Vote and Join Us Today At the Convention Center!

It might be this bright, but it will be chilly!

Members of the Ocean City Employees Coalition will be outside the convention this morning, encouraging folks to vote for the charter amendment and answering questions for any residents looking for more information.  Please join us, and please remember to vote!  Remember, voting FOR the charter amendment does NOT give the employees the union – it just gives the general employees to make the choice for themselves whether they would like collective bargaining or not, just like the police, firefighters, and EMT.  The ballot question will look like this:

A replica of the ballot – please vote FOR the amendment!

Thank you and we will see you there!

Another Successful Saturday!

Thanks to everyone who helped us knock on doors again this past Saturday – we were able to reach many more voters, and those we talked to were overwhelmingly supportive!  Please remember to get out and vote on Tuesday, and help us to achieve the right to decide for ourselves whether we would like to bargain collectively, just like the police, firefighters, and EMT!

Join Us For Another Walk This Saturday!

Wondering how you can help to make sure general employees are given the chance to decide for themselves if they want collective bargaining or not?  Come out tomorrow from 9:30AM-5:00PM and join us as we go throughout Ocean City to knock on doors, talk with voter, and get the word out that a vote FOR the charter amendment is a vote to give the general employees a voice in their own situation!  We’ll be meeting at our office space, 11805B Coastal Highway, and going out from there!  You can also check the event out on Facebook!

Ocean City Employees Lead Storm Assessment, Clean-Up

A pair of press releases from the City Manager’s office in recent days have highlighted the work Ocean City general employees have been doing to help get the town back up and running after Hurricane Sandy blew through Monday night.  The first press release, from Tuesday morning, highlighted the way the employees worked effectively with other agencies to do the required assessment work prior to the re-opening of downtown Ocean City:

Town of Ocean City employees are working diligently with partnering agencies to complete the mandated damage assessment to allow residents and businesses into the downtown area as soon as possible. Currently, there is no need for volunteer services…

The second press release, announcing a return to normalcy for Ocean City, came later that day, and made clear the hard work Ocean City town employees put in to re-open downtown Ocean City:

Since before sunrise, Town of Ocean City employees have been working to assess the damage throughout town to determine the effects of Hurricane Sandy.  With no known damage to the boardwalk, the results of the initial assessment included anticipated beach erosion and flooding, marginal debris and severe damage to the Ocean City Fishing Pier.  Employees for the Town of Ocean City have been working diligently to clear storm related debris and return regularly scheduled city services.

Emergency personnel not only responded to calls during the storm, but continued to assist residents and visitors upon their return to Ocean City.  In addition, they worked closely with the Maryland State Highway Association, the Maryland State Police, the US Coast Guard and the National Guard to make sure the town was safe for citizens to return. Public Works staff assisted in picking up debris, transporting citizens to and from shelters and cleaning up the beach.  Not to mention, countless employees and volunteers who worked around the clock monitoring the Hurricane, staffing the Emergency Operations Center and meeting the needs of the residents, businesses and visitors before, during and after the storm.

Ocean City was able to survive Hurricane Sandy in realtively good condition, thanks in no small part to the efforts of its many general employees.  Clean-up will of course continue right through to election day, keeping general employees busy making Ocean City safe and beautiful again.

The end of the press release by the City Manager’s office said it best:

Due to the preparedness of… the employees, the Ocean City community experienced zero storm related injuries and minimal city-wide damage.

Please remember to thank a town employee when you see one, and please remember to show your support for the general employees by voting FOR the charter amendment on Tuesday!

A Successful Saturday!

On Saturday, October 27th, with Hurricane Sandy bearing down on us, a group of Ocean City general employees and other volunteers spread out across town to get the word out about the ballot question residents are facing.  Thanks to the work of the employees and the volunteers who joined them, we were able to talk with over 300 residents on Saturday, with an overwhelming majority expressing support for the charter amendment.  Thanks to all who volunteered, and thanks especially to those employees who couldn’t be with us because they were called in to work to prepare Ocean City for the worst of the hurricane.  They did a wonderful job, by all accounts, and thanks in large part to their efforts, Ocean City was spared some of the destruction that was visited upon other seaside towns on the Eastern seaboard.

Thanks for checking in with us, and please remember to support your town employees on November 6th by voting “FOR” the charter amendment!

Join Us Saturday!

Wondering what you can do to help the effort to get Ocean City town employees the right to decide if they want collective bargaining for themselves?  Come to our office this Saturday at 10:00AM (it’s in the shopping center with the Food Lion at 11805 Coastal Highway, Ocean City MD 21842); we have teams of people going out to knock on doors and spread the message.  Call Christine (202)486-2356 or Andrew Dixon (267)342-0328 for more details!

Our Informational Flyer!

Vote FOR the charter amendment on November 6th!

The above is an image of our newly-minted flyer, which we will be distributing throughout Ocean City in the coming weeks.  Please feel free to print as many as you like using the link to the right under our new section, “Files for Printing,” and give them to anyone looking for good information about the Charter Amendment!  You can also send it so someone digitally by clicking on the link to the right, copying the url once the pdf loads, and pasting that link into an email or on Facebook or Twitter.

In addition, you’ll also see digital copies of our first two ads that were run in the Ocean City Today and Maryland Coast Dispatch in the “Files for Printing” section.  Please feel free to share all of this information and get our message out!