Senate Bill 83 is drawing harsh criticism from labor unions, who worry this could turn educators away from Ohio
“I would describe the bill as a radical set of solutions in search of problems,” said David Jackson, president of Bowling Green State University’s Faculty Association, a chapter of American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers.
The bill would require American history courses, public syllabuses, and teacher information be put online; tenure evaluations based on if the educator showed bias or taught with bias; and rewrite mission statements to include that educators teach so students can reach their “own conclusions.” Piet van Lier, a research consultant focused on justice reform and education at Policy Matters Ohio, said SB 83 would undermine public education.
“The ability to strike is central to collective bargaining,” Kilpatrick said. “If faculty do not have the ability to strike, then it’s not collective bargaining. It’s collective begging because that’s the only leverage that faculty have to get management to come to the table and actually bargain.”“They don’t have they don’t have to negotiate anymore, because they don’t have to be worried that the faculty are going to strike,” Kilpatrick said.
“The problem with this bill is that once you erase the right to strike and shift the balance of power so much in favor of management,” he said. “There’s a lot of bad stuff in this bill,” he said. Miami University is in the process of forming a collective bargaining unit, known as the Faculty Alliance of Miami with 802 members. Eligible faculty will vote to unionize later in the spring, likely in April or May, said Cathy Wagner, a Miami English professor and organizer, who calls SB 83 a contradictory bill.
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