GOP looks to public workers for savings

Dec. 26, 2010, Zanesville Times Recorder

BY JESSICA ALAIMO

CentralOhio.com

The new year will bring major changes to the way Ohio governments and schools manage and pay public employees, if Republicans have their way.

In recent weeks, Ohio’s next leaders have suggested the General Assembly make substantial changes to the state’s collective bargaining law, which allow public employees to organize and negotiate labor contracts, and binding arbitration, when a neutral party settles labor disagreements with final rulings on pay and work rules.

Republicans also want to enact changes within Ohio’s public pension systems.