City of Twinsburg v. State Employment Relations Board

In Rocky River v. State Emp. Relations Bd. (1988), 39 Ohio St. 3d 196, 530 N.E. 2d 1, this court

held that the provision for mandatory binding arbitration of collective bargaining disputes over municipal safety-employee benefits and wages, R.C. 4117.14(1), was unconstitutional in that such section (1) violated a municipality’s right to exercise the powers of local self-government under Sections 3 and 7, Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, and (2) unlawfully delegated municipal legislative authority to set wages and salaries for municipal safety employees. We also held-that Section 34,…