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: AFL-CIO NOW BLOGBreaking: Ohio Senate Committee Approves Anti-Worker Bill
By James Parks
Breaking: An Ohio Senate committee voted 7-5 this morning to send Gov. John Kasich’s anti-collective bargaining bill, Senate Bill 5, to the full Senate for a likely vote this afternoon.
Sen. Jim Hughes, a Republican from Columbus, joined the four Democrats on the committee in voting against the bill. Prior to the hearing, Senate President Thomas Niehaus yanked Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican and a public critic of the bill, off of the committee, replacing him with Sen. Cliff Hite (R-Findlay) who voted for it.
Seitz not only opposed the bill, but condemned the process, which he said created an unnecessarily confrontational atmosphere.
Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).
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