Senate Bill 5 was proposed in Columbus yesterday by Senator Jones
Proposed collective bargaining changes
State workers
Eliminates collective bargaining for state workers, including higher education employees, and calls for the development of a merit-based system.
Local workers
Removes the requirement that deadlocked negotiations with safety forces go to binding arbitration, instead extending the prior union contract for one year.
Allows employers to hire permanent replacement workers during a strike.
Removes health insurance from collective bargaining. Management would pick a uniform insurance policy that would apply both to themselves and workers, and employees must cover at least 20 percent of the cost.
Prohibits public employers from picking up employee pension contributions.
Removes from state law automatic pay increases for experience and education.
Eliminates from state law leave policies and automatic 15 sick days for teachers.
— The Columbus Dispatch
SenatorJones needs our suppor for this bill. It is helpful to write to her so that she understands the citizens of Ohio want her to follow through, stay strong and don't let this bill be watered down.
Cantact her at the following
SD07@senate.state.oh.us
or
Shannon Jones
800 Valley View Point
Springboro, Ohio 45066
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Training Opportunities at EmpowerU
http://www.empoweruohio.org/
Empower U — is a series of seminars that will train a group of informed citizens to be aware of what is going on in Local, State and Federal Government. By empowering these Activists with new tools, they will be better able to monitor Fiscal Responsibility and Limit the growth of government.
Sessions will take place in venues all around the Greater Cincinnati area in the months of February, March, April and May of 2010. These sessions—most lasting 90 minutes in length—will aim to gear you with the tools you need and “Empower U” to be a check against our ever growing governments.
Taught by experts in their fields, or Empowered Citizens who have navigated the paths of government successful, these Empower U sessions will give you the background to get involved in your Government and help change it. Choose a few sessions that you want to go to and sign up on-line. Empower yourself NOW with the tools you need from Empower U!
Sessions will take place in venues all around the Greater Cincinnati area in the months of February, March, April and May of 2010. These sessions—most lasting 90 minutes in length—will aim to gear you with the tools you need and “Empower U” to be a check against our ever growing governments.
Taught by experts in their fields, or Empowered Citizens who have navigated the paths of government successful, these Empower U sessions will give you the background to get involved in your Government and help change it. Choose a few sessions that you want to go to and sign up on-line. Empower yourself NOW with the tools you need from Empower U!
Public-worker unions ready to fight GOP proposals
Senate Republicans unveil plans to eliminate collective bargaining for state workers and significantly weaken local union power. The response from unions was immediate and furious.Read More Here
Contact your State Senator and ask him or her to support Senate Bill 5.
Write a letter to the editor or contact your local talk radio station to defend these reforms and promote the themes listed above.
See More @
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Contact your State Senator and ask him or her to support Senate Bill 5.
Write a letter to the editor or contact your local talk radio station to defend these reforms and promote the themes listed above.
See More @
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=gag4lybab&v=001Etp3ZLRMl6eSjORoSV5ye1UtwQOZyC_vWXgQTNHQKSJUcCTfAIwLWh-yl5NmEE1AUd7egeFWGIezc_Mj1tjHQmxvJ-fawMrYHFxfUz0PwSSi--3YJ_X8V_f4lfkpvmmM_ksA74-nFhon2TUjHY9ZcMoiNPC2QxjUQug05hgNQ0hG0zSa7vixWP0uS2oMbwvr7wwDiJe0nD5I7VJM7sS30zdy00Yv0Y_Fc16GWiSA_T42fn390LGx2WU3wkm2BVn-5VD6iC10BzrZgtXlf7F8G0OOlwiNyh8J9t_obytWddlKsfxnJHOG4P67wb12i0MnpBrXzP4_LH1tYS8wGWgYNOQ_BaUIGaRHTLBYlpE8wbs%3D
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
News from "Kasich Taylor for Ohio Team"
The Washington Post featured a great column by George Will, detailing the tough challenges ahead for Governor John Kasich and how his unique experiences will help to make Ohio great again. You can read a short highlight below:
In 1997, when Republicans controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and John Kasich chaired the Budget Committee, he set his sights on the GOP's 2000 presidential nomination because "there just aren't enough hours left in my life that I can get everything done that I want to get done." He was 44.
His ebullience - 12 years from now, at 70, he will still seem like a boy who rode his balloon-tire bike out of a Booth Tarkington novel - is not dampened by a Midwestern winter's slate gray sky hanging close to the 30th-floor governor's office. Having occupied that office for four weeks, he has plans as big as Ohio's problems.
Its population is aging, and shrinking relative to the nation's: From 2000 to 2010, only Rhode Island and Louisiana had slower population growth (Michigan had negative growth); and Ohio is losing two congressional seats. It will have 16 starting in 2013, down from 24 in 1960. Cincinnati has lost 40 percent of its population since 1950. Most net new job creation in the nation is done by companies no more than five years old, but Kasich says that Ohio's taxation and regulation environment discourages entrepreneurship.
Read more here http://blog.kasichforohio.com/?p=3207&msource=JK020711EM1&tr=y&auid=7734001
In 1997, when Republicans controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and John Kasich chaired the Budget Committee, he set his sights on the GOP's 2000 presidential nomination because "there just aren't enough hours left in my life that I can get everything done that I want to get done." He was 44.
His ebullience - 12 years from now, at 70, he will still seem like a boy who rode his balloon-tire bike out of a Booth Tarkington novel - is not dampened by a Midwestern winter's slate gray sky hanging close to the 30th-floor governor's office. Having occupied that office for four weeks, he has plans as big as Ohio's problems.
Its population is aging, and shrinking relative to the nation's: From 2000 to 2010, only Rhode Island and Louisiana had slower population growth (Michigan had negative growth); and Ohio is losing two congressional seats. It will have 16 starting in 2013, down from 24 in 1960. Cincinnati has lost 40 percent of its population since 1950. Most net new job creation in the nation is done by companies no more than five years old, but Kasich says that Ohio's taxation and regulation environment discourages entrepreneurship.
Read more here http://blog.kasichforohio.com/?p=3207&msource=JK020711EM1&tr=y&auid=7734001
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