(The Cleveland Plain Dealer published the following on February 10, 2011.)
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fight over changes to Ohio’s collective bargaining law escalated Wednesday with the introduction of a Republican proposal that labor groups say is a direct attack on public-sector workers across the state.
Collective bargaining would be eliminated for state workers and reformed for employees of local governments under the proposal, which also includes changes to teachers’ contracts and benefits, bargaining timelines, layoff procedures and binding arbitration rules for police and firefighters.
The full story appears at Cleveland.com.