Law Repeals Public-Employee Bargaining Limits

Unions have a $25 million budget for the latest round of the union-rights fight in Ohio.   They also have 10,000 volunteers pushing an effort to repeal a new state law reining in public-employee unions.  Ohio has 360,000 public sector employees.

The unions argue that Republicans overreached this spring when they passed Senate Bill 5, boosting health-care and pension contributions for the state's 360,000 public employees and taking away most of their legislated collective-bargaining rights.

The Ohio Fraternal Order of Police has asked its local lodges to collect $50 from each active member.

Michele Prater, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Education Association, which has 128,000 members in the state, said it would raise more than $5 million for the repeal effort by assessing teachers $54 and support-staff members such as cafeteria workers $25. She said the union's 713 delegates representing locals unanimously approved the one-time assessment.

The state and regional Democratic Party is offering technical assistance and support to the repeal effort, recruiting thousands of volunteers, providing voter lists for canvassers and helping with fund raising.

When Republican Governor John Kasich signed Senate Bill 5 into law in April he said it would help the state dig itself out of an $8 billion budget gap over the next two years.

"We're very confident when people realize it's simply restoring some balance between public and private sector workers, they will understand how valuable Senate Bill 5 is," said Rob Nichols, a spokesman for the governor. "It is a tool that will enable localities to not have to raise taxes and kill more jobs."

This should be a no brainer for the voters of Ohio.  Public sector employee unions have gained too much power.  The states are fighting huge budget deficits.  The unions donate huge  amounts of money to politicians who give them wages and benefits that far exceed the private sector. Requiring public sector union employees to pay part of their health insurance costs and contribute to part of their retirement is not unjust.  How many of you get both or either for free?

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