{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Public Education Matters","title":"Celebrating 40 years of legally protected collective bargaining in Ohio","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1686,"description":"2024 marks 40 years since Ohio's collective bargaining law took effect. Before that, public employees, including educators, could face jail time for going on strike, and the so-called professional agreements they had been able to negotiate with school districts didn't carry much weight. All of that changed with a stroke of Gov. Richard Celeste's pen in 1983, with the law taking effect the following year. OEA-Retired member Bill Lavezzi shares his memories of working in Ohio schools before and after the legal protections that were granted under Ohio's collective bargaining law.\nSUBSCRIBE | Click here to subscribe to Public Education Matters on Apple Podcasts or click here to listen on Spotify so you don't miss a thing. You can also find Public Education Matters on many other platforms, including YouTube. Click here for links for other platforms so you can listen anywhere. And don't forget you can listen to all of the previous episodes anytime on your favorite podcast platform, or by clicking here.\nImportant Moments in Ohio's Collective Bargaining History:\n1947 - Hagerman DecisionOhio Supreme Court case regarding dues checkoff\nSpoke in “strident terms” against public sector bargaining\n“[unions] have no function which they may discharge in connection with civil service employees\"\nDeemed it was improper for a public entity to delegate authority to another entity (including a union)\n1947 - Ferguson ActBanned public employee strikes and expressly allowed discipline, including termination, for participating in a strike\n1958 - Voters reject a right-to-work amendment to the Ohio Constitution\n1959 - The Ohio legislature authorizes union dues checkoff, which nullifies part of the Hagerman Decision\n1975 reversal of the Hagerman DecisionThe Dayton Classroom Teachers Association won an Ohio Supreme Court case, which stated that a \"board of education is vested with discretionary authority to negotiate and to enter into a collective bargaining agreement...\"\n1975 - Gov. James...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qLU1HXpO0BWjHZ9wsRqLDb3niD3HIo0pJs38nc-jHtg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3NTcwLzE2OTEw/ODIxNjctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}