State Budget
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Support government efficiency study and tax freeze over massive consolidations, job cuts

Join with OCSEA and urge state legislators to:

• SUPPORT HB 343 to study government operations and spending to identify opportunities for creating efficiencies while preserving and maximizing services.
• SUPPORT House Bill 318 to freeze a tax cut that Ohio just can't afford. 
• OPPOSE Senate Bill 52 to avoid putting thousands of Ohioans at risk by slicing vital state services.

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Urge state lawmakers to postpone tax cuts to protect schools, create new jobs
Oct. 13, 2009 - President Eddie L. Parks is asking union members to urge legislators to back the governor's proposal to freeze tax cuts and save Ohio from yet another round of funding cuts. SEND EMAIL | FULL STORY

Gov. Ted Strickland's Executive Budget Proposal for Fiscal Years 2010 - 11 signed
Check out the official Office of Budget and Management (OBM) documents or view the union's blogs, news and action alerts below.

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Budget Blogs...

• Governor vetos 61 items, signs budget

• Conference committee reports deal; Lawmakers to send budget to governor

• Budget deal reached

• ODOT 'disappointed' in Boehner

• Lawmakers are listening

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Archived Budget News...

• Pension reduction tabled (June 23, 2009)

• OCSEA to testify during extended budget term (July 2, 2009)

• Lawmakers fail to compromise; Interim budget to pass this week (June 29, 2009)

• Budget Alert: Union concerned over governor's "framework" to balance budget (June 20, 2009)

• Will your job be spared? (June 18, 2009)

• Activists team up to spread word about Action Day (May 18, 2009)

• Ohio Senate strips Statehouse employees of collective bargaining after picket over inmate labor (June 4, 2009)

• New budget forecast grim; OCSEA leaders brace for news (May 15, 2009)

• OCSEA activists informed public, gathered petition signatures to oppose displacement of laid-off Statehouse workers with inmates (May 2, 2009)
  
  
• ODJFS office consolidation (May 7, 2009)

• Union president thanks OCSEA members who impacted stimulus bill with legislative action on restoring state aide (Feb. 17, 2009)

• Union proposes cuts to middle management, delay of tax policy (Feb. 2, 2009)

• OCSEA petition drive urges Congress to deliver fiscal aid, economic recovery package (Jan. 26, 2009)

• State employee layoffs not answer to budget hole

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