Study shows Senate Bill 5 would have saved $1.3 billion last year
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It was reported in a Feb. 26 news release from Ohio Gov. John Kasich's office, that state and local governments would have saved an estimated $1.3 billion in 2010 on health insurance and automatic pay increases if the limits imposed by the proposed Senate Bill 5 were in effect last year.
The governor's office cited a recent analysis by the state Office of Collective Bargaining and a story in the Feb. 26 Columbus Dispatch.
"The report comes as Senate Republicans are preparing to pass the biggest overhaul to collective bargaining since the law was enacted in 1983. Changes to the bill and a committee vote could happen as soon as Tuesday, with a possible full Senate vote by Thursday," the Dispatch said.
Senate Bill 5, introduced by Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Springboro, would make significant changes to elective bargaining power for more than 350,000 state and local public workers, limiting what they are allowed to discuss at the bargaining table and removing all ability to strike.
Republicans say the bill is necessary to cut the rising personnel costs and give local and state officials more options to deal with pending budget cuts.
Democrats and unions have called it an attack against middle-class workers.
In a compromise last week, Jones and other Republicans agreed to delete a provision in the bill that would have prohibited state employees from collective bargaining. The amended bill would allow public-sector unions to bargain collectively for wages but not for other items, such as health-care benefits and pensions.[[In-content Ad]]
The governor's office cited a recent analysis by the state Office of Collective Bargaining and a story in the Feb. 26 Columbus Dispatch.
"The report comes as Senate Republicans are preparing to pass the biggest overhaul to collective bargaining since the law was enacted in 1983. Changes to the bill and a committee vote could happen as soon as Tuesday, with a possible full Senate vote by Thursday," the Dispatch said.
Senate Bill 5, introduced by Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Springboro, would make significant changes to elective bargaining power for more than 350,000 state and local public workers, limiting what they are allowed to discuss at the bargaining table and removing all ability to strike.
Republicans say the bill is necessary to cut the rising personnel costs and give local and state officials more options to deal with pending budget cuts.
Democrats and unions have called it an attack against middle-class workers.
In a compromise last week, Jones and other Republicans agreed to delete a provision in the bill that would have prohibited state employees from collective bargaining. The amended bill would allow public-sector unions to bargain collectively for wages but not for other items, such as health-care benefits and pensions.[[In-content Ad]]