Ohio

There were only four police cases that were in the categories that we analyzed. In those four cases, there was no deviation from the analysis in the non-police cases. The Ohio State Employment Relations Board (Board or SERB) has a “shadow docket,” where it decides most unfair labor practice cases in preliminary, unpublished decisions issued without hearing. This shadow docket accounts for the limited number of published decisions. Moreover, given the SERB’s widespread use of its shadow docket, it is difficult to determine how police and non-police collective bargaining differs. That said, one can still glean trends from the admittedly small sample size.