Members of the came back to work for their first day since the election to face a room packed with opponents of a bill on public employee unions. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports the bill may not go far, but union members were determined to show their opposition.
Republican of Cincinnati says his bill only puts into state law the ending the forced collection of union dues from public employees.
鈥淭his is simply right to work, where the employees have the choice to join a union. It does nothing to abolish unions or any kind of union busting.鈥�
president Mike Taylor says the turnout for this first hearing was a show of force by opponents of so-called right to work laws.
鈥淎bsolutely. All these people were here 鈥� we just went through this in 2011.鈥�
That鈥檚 when unions and voters defeated the public employee collective bargaining reform law known as Senate Bill 5. Outgoing has said a right to work law isn鈥檛 needed, and incoming Gov. said he would veto one.
