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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 resolution when management and labor reach impasse. we're getting rid of the right to strike, that's f...

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 overturn it and reject it. now, labor lawyers or labor law experts i've talked to said that turns collect...

>> this is by far the largest crowd. several thousand have turned out to protest. it's different in that about every two hours they have a rally on the steps of the capitol. it's 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 snyder's plans that they say will harm collective bargaining rights. there are a number of legislative bills as well as budget bills that do things like cut funding ...

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: hasn't sheen's 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. that is what is important. when mr. smeen got the letter he was prepared to go to work on february 2...

-- they made the right to strike illegal for safety forces, police and fire. they don't 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 didn't live in the city forcing decisions. >> judge jeanine: here's the bottom line are you saying they don't have a voice now because they can't collectively bargain? we we discusses this before, -- we we discussed this bef...