Ohio Ass'n of Public School Employees v. City of Twinsburg

I must vigorously dissent to the position taken by the majority today. This decision is, I fear, an attempt to obtain through the back door what was not achieved via the front door in Kettering v. State Emp. Relations Bd. (1986), 26 Ohio St. 3d 50, 26 OBR 42, 496 N.E. 2d 983, i.e., the destruction of Ohio’s Public Employees’ Collective Bargaining Act. Appellees, and their right to enjoy the benefits of the civil service system, are manifestly of statewide concern. Yet, today’s majority has permitted a city to unilaterally withhold those statutorily mandated services from appellees. Clearly,…