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News impacting public employee union members

 2009  

Union says merging agencies not answer to budget
Oct. 27, 2009 (Columbus) - Members of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association held a press conference today to explain why a proposal to “restructure” state government and cut the state workforce by 25 to 30 percent would be foolish. Hearings took place today on Senate Bill 52 that would turn 24 state agencies into 10 and cut 11,000 state employees. READ MORE...

State workers to hold press conference
opposing government “restructuring”
Oct. 26, 2009 (Columbus) - Advocates and employees of good government will hold a press conference Tues., Oct. 27, 2009 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Ladies Gallery at the Ohio Statehouse to respond to a proposal to “restructure” state government in an effort to fill an $850 million budget gap. READ MORE...

Closure of juvenile facility threat to public safety
Sept. 25, 2009 (Columbus) - Members of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association who work in the Department of Youth Services are warning today that the announced closure of another juvenile correctional facility on top of myriad other changes within the agency are a threat to public safety. READ MORE...

Lucasville Correction Officers to picket loss of security towers; ex-hostage to speak
Sept. 4, 2009 - Members of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association who work at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville will be holding an around-the-clock informational picket on Wed., Sept. 9 and Thurs., Sept. 10. READ MORE

Groups unite in opposing pension fund reduction
June 24, 2009 (Columbus) – Governor Strickland’s announcement that the State of Ohio would significantly lower its pension contribution share from 14 to 8 percent of pay for state employees in order to help offset a budget hole is being met by strong protests from a wide variety of groups. READ MORE

Union concerned over Governor’s "framework" to balance budget
June 20, 2009 (Columbus, Ohio) - Members of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association were not at all happy to learn that Governor Strickland would be recommending a double hit to Ohio’s working families with cuts to state services and to public employee pension contributions in order to fill a $3.2 billion dollar state budget hole. READ MORE

Union family saddened by ruling on officer’s death
May 22, 2009 - Columbus – Members of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association who work in the Department of Youth Services are reeling from the news this morning that their colleague, Juvenile Correctional Officer William Hesson, died in the line of duty as a result of an assault by a youth. A coroner’s report was released today ruling the death a homocide. READ MORE

Union proposes cuts to middle management, delay of tax policy
Feb. 2, 2009 - Columbus, Ohio - The largest state employees union is making its own recommendations to fill the state budget hole after the Governor announced today he would make cuts of between 5 to 20 percent to state agencies and ask all employees to cut their pay from 0 to 6 percent. READ MORE...

Safety at core of union concern over DYS closures
Jan. 8, 2009 - Westerville – Union officials of the largest state employees union say closing two state Juvenile Correctional Facilities in Marion and Delaware just doesn’t make sense in light of a report less than a year old that indicates these Department of Youth Services facilities are overcrowded and understaffed. READ MORE...

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