Ohio Governor asks state workers to take 5% paycut with fewer hours and unpaid holidays

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COLUMBUS -- The state has asked workers in its largest labor union to accept a 5 percent across-the-board pay cut, a shorter work week and unpaid holidays to help balance the state's troubled budget, according to a document obtained by The Plain Dealer.

The list of cuts and changes Gov. Ted Strickland's administration has asked the workers to accept, which also includes mandatory furloughs and paying more for their health insurance, would amount to $250 million in concessions, according to a members-only e-mail from Ohio Civil Service Employees Association president Eddie L. Parks.

In the e-mail updating members on bargaining, dated Thursday, Parks said that the union expected to have to fight to keep its wages and health care agreements intact. But the union's negotiating team nonetheless was "aghast at the scope of the concessions the state proposed."

Parks said "the union has also been told that even if concessions are made, there will be no guarantee that layoffs won't happen."

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2009/01/...ned_by_req.html

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COLUMBUS -- The state has asked workers in its largest labor union to accept a 5 percent across-the-board pay cut, a shorter work week and unpaid holidays to help balance the state's troubled budget, according to a document obtained by The Plain Dealer.

The list of cuts and changes Gov. Ted Strickland's administration has asked the workers to accept, which also includes mandatory furloughs and paying more for their health insurance, would amount to $250 million in concessions, according to a members-only e-mail from Ohio Civil Service Employees Association president Eddie L. Parks.

In the e-mail updating members on bargaining, dated Thursday, Parks said that the union expected to have to fight to keep its wages and health care agreements intact. But the union's negotiating team nonetheless was "aghast at the scope of the concessions the state proposed."

Parks said "the union has also been told that even if concessions are made, there will be no guarantee that layoffs won't happen."

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2009/01/...ned_by_req.html

Our @hole governor is trying to pull the same thing.Our union (council 94) keeps fighting it.

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Our @hole governor is trying to pull the same thing.Our union (council 94) keeps fighting it.

Private sector employees around the nation are feeling the brunt of the recession.

What is so special about the public sector that requires they be shielded from it?

[Jasman0717 9]

California will be out of money next month.

[panamania79 2]

Our @hole governor is trying to pull the same thing.Our union (council 94) keeps fighting it.

Private sector employees around the nation are feeling the brunt of the recession.

What is so special about the public sector that requires they be shielded from it?

We make less money than you do,we only get a raise once every three years.And the crooked politicians want to blame all of their budget woes on us.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Massachusetts is short about 2-5 billion dollars. We're okay.