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In the second week of hearings on a law regarding collective bargaining, public workers packed the Ohio Statehouse in protest of the bill. The proposed law would eliminate collective bargaining for public workers. The Governor has said that he supports the bill, and has talked about banning all public employee strikes. Workers expressed doubt about the costs saving effects that the bill would have, and worried about a lack of recourse for wages, benefits and even hiring practices. The superintendent of the Warren County Educational Services Center spoke in favor of the bill, saying that citizens were tired of paying increased amounts for education, and that they understood that it was teachers' unions who were to blame for those cots. The governor says that he only wants to restore balance between management and labor.