New staff come aboard at OSEA
OSEA has recently added a field representative and organizer to our staff.
Our newest field representative in the Metro Office brings a wealth of labor experience to the job.
Steve Sears has worked as an organizer and representative for numerous organizations, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 75 and Teamsters Local 206 in Oregon, AFT-Maryland and more. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy.
“I enjoy helping people, and that’s why I’m in the labor movement,” Sears said.
In his spare time, Sears runs the impressive Voices of Labor blog, with near-daily updates focusing primarily on labor history. Give it a click!
In addition, former AFT Project Staff Organizer Mimi Khalili has returned to OSEA, this time as a staffer in OSEA’s organizing department.
She returns after a stint at Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503, where she organized classified staff at Oregon State University and state Department of Human Services workers around worksite issues like bullying bosses and other management issues. She also was heavily involved in the effort to bring Measure 97 to a vote in the November election. 
At OSEA, she worked primarily with the Government Relations department, coordinating the Congressional and Legislative Network Teams (CNT/LNT), recruited temporary campaign workers for phone banking and canvassing during the 2014 election cycle, and prepared testimony for members on legislative priority bills.
“I loved organizing OSEA members to improve wages and working conditions, and the chance to come back here was too good to pass up. I’m looking forward to getting reacquainted with old friends and making new ones,” Khalili said.
She has also worked organizing faculty members at the University of Oregon with AFT and with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3930 in California.
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