Ohio unionists ramp up push against anti-worker law

[Omaha Steve]

http://peoplesworld.org/ohio-unionists-ramp-up-push-against-anti-worker-law/

by: Mark Gruenberg
October 28 2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Despite favorable public opinion polls, Ohio unionists are taking nothing for granted and ramping up their campaign to repeal right-wing Gov. John Kasich's anti-worker anti-union law, as a Nov. 8 referendum on it nears.

Workers are pounding the pavements showing the everyday impact of Kasich's measure, SB5, which he pushed through the GOP-run Ohio legislature earlier this year.

They're also advertising. In one spot, a woman says Fire Fighters saved her 2-year-old daughter's life, yet Kasich's law would take away the Fire Fighters' right to collectively bargain for equipment and staffing to make such rescues possible. But the unionists are not really relying on an air war to win. Their troops are on the ground.

"Last weekend we had over 2,000 volunteers" on the streets, says Ohio AFL-CIO spokesman Jason Perlman. Unions expected to field even more on Halloween weekend and 10,000 in get-out-the-vote drives in the final weekend before the election.

FULL story at link.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. K & R, goddamit!

What in pluperfect HELL does it take to get people to at least give a rec to something so important?!? Steve, perhaps you need to incorporate 'kitteh' into your thread title; people don't appear to give two shits about things so mundane as repealing anti-union laws.

[Coexist]

2. knr