Labor & Employment Law

5,000 Rally Against Ohio Anti-Worker Bill

By Mike Hall

Just got a report from some of our folks on the ground in Columbus, Ohio: more than 5,000 people?firefighters, teachers, small business leaders, community members and other public-service workers?filled the statehouse again today to show their opposition to Senate Bill 5 which would  eliminate collective bargaining rights for all state workers, including faculty and staff at Ohio state colleges and universities.

This afternoon, the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee is hearing testimony from opponents of the bill. Just in the past week, tens of thousands of phone calls, e-mails and hand-written postcards have been delivered to senators urging them to oppose Gov. John Kasich’s (R) partisan assault on working families.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).