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Employees. this has just happened. the law in some ways is tougher than that in wisconsin which prompted tens of thousands of protesters to rally against it for weeks. tougher because it extends union restrictions to police officers and firefighters. and as many public employees did in wisconsin, opponents of the ohio measure call it a union buster. governor kasich has said that the savings from lifting the union protections will help fill an 8 billion-dollar budget gap. >> this is not an effort to punish anybody. this is an effort, again, to restore balance and to be able to remove the burden...

Jon: protesters in ohio say they are not giving up the fight, even as governor john caseak is going to sign a bill today limiting collective bargaining rights for thousands of workers. he says it's necessary to close an $8 billion budget gap in his state. mike tobin in chicago with the latest. no doubt the governor intends to sign this bill. >> reporter: a spokesman for the governor says he intends to sign it between 6 and 7:30 eastern time this after the ohio legislature moved this legislation through creating a scene very similar to what we saw in wisconsin. now in some ways ohio's law is to...

Completely write off four of the six reactors at the crippled power plant. it's the first time that tepco has acknowledged that much of the multi-billion dollar facility is beyond repair. the work between state workers and the governor in wisconsin taking another turn this morning. a judge has blocked scott walker's law that strips the union of collective bargaining in rights. and he issued a strong warning to anyone who tries to put it into action. senate democrats fled the state, as you recall, to prevent the bill from coming to a vote. but republicans found a way to pass it anyway. the ...

Huge budget gap, letters going outs to more than 200 of the 450 workers in costa mesa california and city officials say the budget gap is $15 million in the red next year, firefighters getting 90 pink slips alone and my next guest says the cuts are necessary. costa mesa councilman and mayor pro tem jim rickheimer, welcome. >> glad to be with you, bill. bill: we had a union leader, saying over time, they have made strong cuts. >> people have not realized, how bad the budgets have gotten, the fact of the matter, look at the pension, ten years ago we lowered the retirement age in the pensions to ...

It. you know how much they would get for it? it's estimated that the tax could bring in $400 million in revenue by 2015. remember, pennsylvania has a $4 billion budget gap. they could use that money. the philadelphia enquirer reports that he got $800,000 in campaign donations from the drilling industry. of course he did! gee, i wonder why he's giving away the natural gas. he's like, you know what? if we don't give them the tax incentives, they'll go somewhere else. where are they going to go? the gas is underneath pennsylvania. how could they get it from somewhere else. that's painfully stupid...