TEN Points AGAINST Senate Bill 5

The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association has compiled a list of TEN reasons Senate Bill 5 must be stopped in its tracks in the state senate.  Take a look at this Senate directory and give your representative a call today!

1. S.B.5 is a jobs killer.
It will only weaken the Middle Class by destroying good, working-class jobs that families
and communities depend on.
2. S.B.5 will hurt businesses
Stores, gas stations, restaurants and other merchants in communities across the state will
be forced to lay off workers. Or worse, they’ll have to close their doors, because Middle Class Ohioans will no longer be able to afford to patronize those establishments.
3. Public Employees are our neighbors.
They are firefighters, cops, teachers, prison guards, snowplow drivers, and social
workers, to name a few. But they are also coaches, athletic and band boosters,
church members, volunteer firefighters and charitable givers.
4. Public employees are taxpayers.
Public employees pay their taxes just like everyone else. Every payday, they pay
the same percentage of income tax as every working Ohioan.
5. S.B.5 won’t balance the budget.
Even if EVERY state employee was fired, it would barely save the state one-fourth of
its gaping $8 billion budget deficit.
6. S.B.5 is part of a larger agenda and public workers are scapegoats.
It’s a fact! S.B. 5 won’t balance the budget. It’s clear that anti-worker forces are using this
to harm the Middle Class and kill jobs and the union rights they depend on.
7. Collective bargaining works.
For 28 years, collective bargaining has reduced labor strife and the likelihood of strikes
and has improved training and productivity among public employees.
8. OCSEA members have made concessions.
To help the struggling state,  OCSEA worked with the state to save $240 million in the
current contract in compensation. In addition, another $100 million was saved over the
length of the current contract in health care costs. Over the last 9 years, OCSEA members
have taken 5 pay freezes or pay cuts.
9.Everyone gains when there’s a unionized workplace.
The fact of the matter is wages are higher in work places with a union,
and that’s across the private or public sector.
10. Speaking out against S.B.5 is the only way to defeat it!
Here’s what you can do:
•  Reach out to family, friends & community members for support.
•  Ask local elected officials to publicly denounce S.B. 5.
•  Write your local newspaper.
•  Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on S.B. 5!
•  Attend hearings and rallies, and take part in phone banking, leafleting and other
anti-S.B. 5 activities. Hold your own events in your communities.

-The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association-

For 28 years, collective bargaining has reduced labor strife and the likelihood of strikes
and has improved training and productivity among public employees.
.Collectivebargainingworks.

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