CESI encourages all interested volunteers to stay tuned to our website for more details this month. To fill the board seat vacated by Phelps, CESI will be holding an election wherein volunteers will be able to elect representation to join the professionals on the Board of Directors to allow greater integration and transparency.
As planned, Phelps has stepped down from the CESI Board of Directors to allow for greater oversight and organizational stewardship. Additional rumors of a “hostile takeover” from Phelps are not only untrue, but impossible as Phelps was and has been in charge of the event and cannot take it over from herself. CESI encourages its volunteers to communicate to them all of their needs, wants, hopes, dreams, fears, and aspirations through individual correspondance or collective bargaining. As such, no Ohayocon union has ever or could ever exist, and no “union busting” has or even could take place. While CESI would love its Ohayocon volunteers to have the ability to unionize, National and Ohio State Labor Laws prevent unpaid volunteers of any kind from forming a union. All past volunteers are invited to return for 2024, as Ohayocon would simply cease to exist without them. Contrary to misinformation swirling online, NO volunteers or members of the Senior Leadership Team have been fired from Ohayocon and only three positions have been dissolved in the organizational chart shift.
