Labor & Employment Law

Ohio?s Kasich has Long Record as Job Killer

By Mike Hall

It shouldn?t come as any surprise that Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich wants to outsource and privatize state government jobs (click here for more from Labor 2010 in Ohio). While he was in Congress, Kasich voted to send tens of thousands American jobs overseas.

Kasich voted for NAFTA and trade deals with China that, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), cost more than 140,000 Ohio jobs. But when Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was in Congress, he voted to no on those bills because as he said: ?I felt they take jobs out of Ohio and America.?

Just as devastating to the workers who saw their jobs outsourced, Kasich, while a member of the board of directors at Invacare, signed off in 2006 on sending 225 Elyria jobs to China and Mexico.

Check out more on the Invacare job loss here .

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).