Kasich, unions ready to rumble over collective bargaining, prevailing wage

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.examiner.com/government-in-columbus/kasich-unions-ready-to-rumble-over-collective-bargaining-prevailing-wage

December 9th, 2010 10:05 pm ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - It's no secret that there's no love lost between Republican Gov.-elect John Kasich and Ohio unions. During his campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, the former congressman turned TV talk show host and investment banker, routinely whipped Ohio unions, especially the Buckeye State's powerful teachers union who invested heavily in Strickland's reelection effort.

AFSCME, AFL-CIO launch "Stop the lies" campaign

So the announcement this week by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO that they launched a new communication campaign to counter Kasich and legislative Republicans who will seek to balance an out-of-balance state budget at their expense comes as no surprise.

In an open letter to those like Kasich and his political cohorts, the team of unions said public service workers are not the problem, and that attacking them "will not create jobs...will not solve the problem of trying to save the vital public services that so many rely on."

"The only thing attacking public service workers does," according to the "Stop the lies" Web site, "is divert attention from the real culprits of our country's economic troubles and inequality: You, greedy Wall Street CEOs, politicians in Washington who turn a blind eye, and all right-wing talking heads who spin lies."

Arguing that public service workers are under attack every day on front pages, cable news and talk radio, Stop the Lies says "It's time for us to fight back. When you attack public employees you are attacking the very folks whose work you benefit from — from providing basic public safety, to fixing potholes in the roads you drive on, to making sure clean water runs from your tap."

Kasich ready to reform key unions laws

FULL story at link.

[safeinOhio]

1. Cutting taxes for the few and

wages for the many.

[Botany]

2. we are so fucked in Ohio

John also wants college research and scholarly writing geared more to producing jobs too

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/12/copy/colleges-urged-to-market-research.html?adsec=politics&sid=101


Colleges urged to market research

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010 03:02 AM
BY ENCARNACION PYLE AND MARK NIQUETTE
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Colleges urged to market research
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Gov.-elect John Kasich wants Ohio universities to do a better job of turning research into commercial products to spur economic growth and create badly needed jobs in the state.

"Sticking research papers in a drawer and discovering them 50years later doesn't advance Ohio," Kasich said last week.