Why are the Republicans and Kasich attacking public employees? They didn't create the economic recession. It was caused by the greed and mismanagement of those on Wall Street.
* Chilaborarts had an excerpt for the AAUP Member newsletter:
....In Ohio, 9 percent of the state budget is spent on public employees. Firing every state employee would result in a savings of $2 billion, and would still leave the citizens of Ohio with a $6 BILLION deficit and completely without the vital services that state employees provide.
In Wisconsin, Governor Walker’s attempt to ban collective bargaining has little to do with the budget. The budget deficit is estimated at roughly $3 billion, and the estimated savings from proposed cuts to public sector workers’ benefits amounts to only $300 million. Many of his proposals reduce workers’ rights without producing any savings at all....
* What will university professors, faculty, and employees lose if SB 5 passes in Ohio?
Here is just part of what they'll lose - AAUP:
...Substitute Senate Bill 5, sponsored by State Senator Shannon Jones (R-Springboro) proposes to end the right to bargain collectively for all public employees, faculty included. Gone would be the faculty right to negotiate wages and working conditions. Gone would be the faculty authority to assure fair due process in adjudicating grievances against the very administrators who imposed them. Gone would be the faculty role in defining merit. Gone would be negotiated rights to one’s own intellectual property. Gone would be historic guarantees of academic freedom. All this would be replaced by administrative fiat.
Substitute Senate Bill 5 should be of grave concern to all faculty members--whether they are in a collective bargaining unit or not, whether they would choose personally to be involved in a union. The issue is self-determination: whether faculty members and other public sector employees should have the democratic right to choose their own collective destiny....
Cincinnati:
Thousands of union members chanted "kill the bill,'' as hundreds of Tea Party activists who favor smaller government shouted "yes on 5'' - the number of the Senate Bill sponsored by Sen. Shannon Jones, who represents all of Warren County and northeastern Hamilton County.
Passage of Jones' bill would end union contracts for 34,000 state workers represented by the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association plus thousands of state troopers, nurses, psychiatrists, professors and public college employees represented by four other unions....
Is this Kasich's way of punishing people that did not support him in the last election?
If Kasich and the Republicans are successful in this legislation and other restrictions on public employees, communities, schools, and neighborhoods will suffer.
