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Savings that the governor wants to get without doing things like saying no one above the rank of police sergeant or fire sergeant, fire corporal, can be part of a union. we can get the savings without saying that a university professor is not allowed to belong to a union if he or she participates in a university committee. we can get those savings that the governor and i want to get without going this far. this bill is fundamentally flawed because it does not provide a fair method for dispute re...

Ohio will vote on a bill that will strip unionized state workers of many of their collective bargaining rights. john yang is in columbus with the latest. >> reporter: contessa this is the most ambitious attempt to limit the collective bargaining rights of employees. it would not only make strikes illegal, it would do away with binding arbitration. that means that if contract negotiations were to bog down, employers could unilaterally impose their last best tax incr could go to the polls to overt...

>> this is by far the largest crowd. several thousand have turned out to protest. its different in that about every two hours they have a rally on the steps of the capitol. its been going on for the better part of an hour. there was another one at noon and immediately following those the people go inside of the capitol building filling this big structure chanting about recalls, talking about changes they want made in governorç snyders plans that they say will harm collective bargaining rights....

It will be in a binding arbitration. i think this is pro-active rather than a reactive approach to set him up for a good settlement. >> gregg: hasnt sheens attorney cleverly drafted the lawsuit that the breach of contract happened before his offensive rants so arguably none of that is technically relevant and admissible at the time of trial? >> right and that is an issue here because everything he has done after the letter terminating him, he can make an argument that none of it applies here. th...

-- they made the right to strike illegal for safety forces, police and fire. they dont have the right to go to binding arbitration. the bargaining changes. >> judge jeanine: what do you say to that? >> the bill has an appeals process. it shifts power become to the locality, whether the municipality, village or government, what we had before were arbitrators coming in that didnt live in the city forcing decisions. >> judge jeanine: heres the bottom line are you saying they dont have a voice now b...

-- they made the right to strike illegal for safety forces, police and fire. they dont have the right to go to binding arbitration. the bargaining changes. >> judge jeanine: what do you say to that? >> the bill has an appeals process. it shifts power become to the locality, whether the municipality, village or government, what we had before were arbitrators coming in that didnt live in the city forcing decisions. >> judge jeanine: heres the bottom line are you saying they dont have a voice now b...

>> reporter: good morning. in a lot of ways this is tougher than wisconsin, and it could be the law in ohio by next week. as you said, the ohio senate last night by one vote passed that republican-sponsored bill that does away with many of the time-honored union benefits, unlike the wisconsin proposal, it could allow for collective bargaining but it restricts the public employees right necessary some areas. union workers can still negotiate wages, hours and working conditions but not health care...

Equit equity? >> over the last 40 years, the public employee unions have had the playing field tipped their way. and through binding arbitration and many other mechanisms that have been available to the public employee unions, they just have eaten up every budget at every level of government in the state. that needs to change. thats what governor walker and the republican legislature is trying to do right now in wisconsin. >> senator, look, thanks for coming on. well continue this one small poin...

Plan for retirement. >> cincinnati reports they are having growing cost annually on the payroll of 18%. but once its approve and you go down the path you can never reverse it. trying to give them the ability to adjust. they are not bankrupting the community. >> the rules for dismissing professor are inflexible. it could take two-and-a-half years to complete. >> we dont have two-and-a-half years to react to the market. changing too quickly. >> the unionized workers say component of the bill such ...

Significant role. so we have to be very careful. theres a lot of things i believe in new jersey we do need to change. ideas of binding arbitration that caused local executives like myself, democrats and republicans, to be put in very, very difficult situations, and we continue to pass pain onto taxpayers, which in this economy we cant afford. but to put forth this idea that we should eviscerate the right to collective bargaining, to get rid of unions all together to me is really going way too fa...