Things are bad enough in one small-town Ohio fire department, even without Senate Bill 5, the state’s anti-collective-bargaining law that will go in front of voters via a veto referendum on Nov. 8.
This month, Toledo’s largest public employee union agreed to a deal with the city that cost them around $3 million dollars in concessions; union leaders say it’s proof positive that the state’s existing collective-bargaining law works just fine, while supporters of the restructured deal credit the threat of a contentious More…
Building a Better Ohio, the group heading the campaign to preserve Ohio’s controversial anti-collective bargaining law Senate Bill 5, is, as a 501(c)4 non-profit, able to keep the names and amounts of donors secret. Campaign finance reports filed today in Ohio for the pre-general election deadline bear this out: More…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says his controversial budget repair bill protected the state’s middle class by avoiding layoffs and government expansion that average Wisconsinites would have ended up paying for.
In an effort to influence the debate over Ohio’s union-busting legislation, Senate Bill 5, that voters appear ready to repeal on Nov. 8, conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas attempted to make one of the Buckeye State’s most respected think tanks the target of one of its latest “investigations.”
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney seems dangerously close to waffling on union reform, an issue core to many conservative voters, in Ohio, as he has made different statements on the state’s flashpoint political issue in the last two days.
A recently released report (PDF) by Protecting Ohio’s Protectors found that since 2008, Ohio public employees have made contract concessions on the state and local level totaling over $1 billion, blunting talking points used by proponents of Senate Bill 5, the union-busting legislation that Ohio voters will have More…
As the fate of Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 hangs in the balance, so too may the fate of public-sector unions in the Buckeye State.
While Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, legislation approved in March that curbs collective-bargaining rights for public employees, has been viewed largely as an attack on teachers, firefighters and police officers, the legislation could also have major implications for Ohio’s veteran community.
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee jokingly suggested late last week to a group of Issue 2 supporters last week that they may have to resort to voter suppression tactics to defeat a Nov. 8 citizen’s referendum on a piece of unpopular union-busting legislation in Ohio. More…
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