"We have asked public employees to pay 10 percent of the costs of their guaranteed pension and 15 percent of the cost of their health care. ... The leadership of those public employees unions don't want to pay anything."
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Gov. John Kasich says leadership of public unions unwilling to pay share of pension costs
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Interview with Toledo Deputy Mayor Steve Herwat, Sept. 21, 2011
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Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement, March 30, 2011
Email exhange with Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2011
PolitiFact Ohio, "Gov. John Kasich says new state labor law doesn't cut worker pay, pension or health care," April 19, 2011
Interview with Toledo Deputy Mayor Steve Herwat, Sept. 21, 2011
Testimony of Toledo Deputy Mayor for Operations Stephen J. Herwat, Ohio Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee, Feb. 15, 2011
Toledo Blade, "Toledo's AFSCME union rejects fact finder's report," Aug. 30, 2011
Toledo Blade, "Reality Check," Sept. 1, 2011
Columbus Dispatch, "City shoulders pension tab," Aug. 4, 2008
The Plain Dealer, "Public-pension tab in Ohio: $4.1 billion -- and growing," Jan. 3, 2010
Dayton Daily News, "School superintendent blasts Kasich in letter," Sept. 19, 2011
Ohio Society of CPAs, "Ohio Budget Advisory Task Force Report Issue Paper: Pension Reform," September 2010
Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement, March 7, 2011
Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement, March 30, 2011
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