Senate Bill 5 approved by committee, moves to Ohio Senate

[OhioChick]

Source: Newsnet5.com

Posted: 11:18 AM

Ohio’s proposal to reform collective bargaining has been approved by a committee and is expected to go to the senate floor Wednesday.

The vote by the state senate’s Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee moves Senate Bill 5 to the next step in the legislative process.

The senate president said the bill will go to a full-senate vote Wednesday afternoon.

SB-5 would change the collective bargaining process for state and local government employees, allowing public workers to negotiate only on issues related to wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/political/senate-bill-5-approved-by-committee-moves-to-ohio-senate-floor

[Kolesar]

1. In the 1970s, Ohio Republicans campaigned on destroying labor unions

...and it was they who got destroyed. The entire goverment became Democratic. There was a period when the Ohio House was Democratic from the 1970s until 1994. It ended when the gops achieved "term limits"

[we can do it]

2. Let Me Out of Here

there goes the pension and any thought of some day escaping this place.
the stupidity is stifling

[Iliyah]

3. Hopefully

I hope I'm right, either recall or vote these assholes out and it can be restored right?

[we can do it]

6. We Can't Recall In Ohio, and The Pukes Control House and Senate

so we are screwn - Kasich even said he doesn't care if he's only in for one term, he will be well paid by his corporate masters for devasting the middle class and infrastructure here.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. It's my understanding that if the law is enacted in Ohio a petition will be initiated

to put the measure on the fall ballot. A court injunction barring the law from implementation until that date is possible.

I don't imagine there Will be any difficulty in garnering a few thousand signatures, and if opinion polls are any indication, the governor's wet dream of breaking the union's back will get instead a face full of cold water.

Of course if it goes to ballot, big money interests will run an endless slide show of cigar chomping union bosses with pockets stuffed full of taxpayer money throughout the summer months. Unfortunately, these interests have found great success in the past with this tactic, and it's discouraging that public opinion can be swayed by such nonsense.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

5. There are only 10 Democrats in the Ohio State Senate

10 out of 33 Senate seats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Senate

All they need is a simple majority to pass this garbage, and they got that without any democrats bothering to show up.

OHIO CONSTITUTION

§ 2.15 How bill shall be passed

(A) The general assembly shall enact no law except by bill, and no bill shall be passed without the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to each house.

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/constitution.cfm?Part=2&Section=15

[Vinee]

7. Ohio Senate Bill 5 approved by narrow vote

Source: Cincinatti.com

OLUMBUS — The Ohio State Senate - by one vote - passed a controversial rewrite of the state's collective bargaining laws.

The Senate passed Senate Bill 5 by a vote of 17-16. The vote drew boos from union protesters watching the proceedings.

The bill now goes to the House.

“We can’t continue to operate under the failed polices and practices that have led many of our government budgets to the breaking point,” said bill sponsor State Sen. Shannon Jones, a Springboro Republican who represents eastern Hamilton County and all of Warren County. “Ohioans sent us here to make some tough decisions about getting spending under control and restoring our economic growth so we can create jobs. That’s what this bill is about.”

Read more: http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20110302/NEWS0108/303020043/Senate-Bill-5-approved-by-narrow-vote?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|communities|s

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This affects me personally as my girlfriend is a state employee and a union member. We'll see how many jobs this actually creates.

[blm]

8. Can anyone from Ohio tell us how the so-called 'newsmedia' there is covering this?

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[OhioChick]

9. Listening to local news now...

Weather, Measles scare/outbreak, Serena Williams (pulmonary embolism) Facebook news, Breast milk ice cream, Kid that "sees" dead people, etc.

[Maeve]

10. As you would expect of corporate-owned media. eom

[Iliyah]

11. This bill is

not going to create jobs but destroy them. Do these people have a conscious at all?

Pray to their all mighty God - MONEY

I hope in 2012 most GOP up for election will be voted out of office, then I'll know there is a God.

[Vinee]

12. Strickland lost because Ohioans were pissed off about the unemployment

If he pulls this shit and fails to create jobs, he will cost the Republicans 18 electoral votes in the next presidential election i.e. the whitehouse and, quite possibly, a senate majority.

[Iliyah]

13. I'm so happy

that Cali voted Dem, phew, I could image Whitman following suit with these assholes, although Cali has majority Dems in congress, but still, she would have tried to. Heck she had made deals with police and firefighers assoc. thats way some where supporting her. Again, phew.

I read that union workers who are able to retire will do so now. And oh, across board, the gop are not creating jobs but are trying to eliminate as many as possible.

The gop will lose, and hopefully the Dems can reinstate the Collective Bargaining again. Fingers crossed.

All these jerks are doing is making the Unions stronger.

[savalez]

18. Exactly. That's what I've been thinking.

I'm in CA too and I bet you she had the same shit in mind for us.

[Marthe48]

15. Just saw it here, on DU

SE Ohio -- WTAP Parkersburg. But they ignore Ohio anyway.

[IamK]

17. Don't wash you car! More rain this weekend and possibility of snow flurries on Sunday...

Gas $3.39 a gallon!

[Tx4obama]

14. The more the GOP keeps pulling this shit just means more dems will win in 2012. n/t

[Marthe48]

16. if the voting machines work

n/t