If you have any doubt about the attacks we are facing let me share some information with you.
This is directly from Cities and Villages July/August 2008, the Journal of the Ohio Municipal League.
OML’s Proposed 2009-2010 Statement of Legislative Policy
Pages 20-21, Personnel Policy
Labor Relations
(42.) Repeal the provisions relative to mandated binding interest arbitration
(43) Should require, in all state-mandated binding arbitrations, that an arbiter’s recommendations be limited to a municipality’s ability to pay for such recommendations.
(44.) In state-mandated collective bargaining, limit the scope of negotiations to more closely mirror the range of issues available for bargaining in the private sector.
Employee Benefits
(45.) Provide the municipalities of Ohio with more representation on the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund Board to enhance their voice as a primary payer of the contributions. This troubled pension fund must have more direct input on its operations and programs from the municipal employers, who pay more than half of the cost of the fund.
(46.) Require the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to notify individual municipalities of all police and fire personnel who choose to elect the deferred retirement option program (DROP). This notification should occur as soon as OPFPF is notified of such election.
(47.) Freeze the existing requirement that Medicare coverage be provided to public employees covered by a statewide or municipal pension system.
(48.) Allow more municipalities to self insure for Worker’s Compensation.
(49. Eliminate the statutory requirement that police and fire chiefs must be appointed from within their respective departments.
(50.) Recognize that residency requirements for municipal employees are a matter of local self-government. Municipalities with residency requirements should not be subject to unwarranted and unconstitutional state statutes.
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