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Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/8/2011 7:15:44 PM

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WASHINGTON -- Ohioans overturned a divisive anti-union law on Tuesday, delivering a significant defeat to Republican Gov. John Kasich and a victory to labor unions.

Ohio voters rejected Issue 2, a ballot referendum on Senate Bill 5, a measure that restricts collective bargaining rights for more than 360,000 public employees, among other provisions. Opposition to the legislation inspired large protests from residents around the state this year.

Immediately after the results came in, union officials sent out statements declaring success.

Some smart people !!! Yay

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/8/2011 7:31:43 PM

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Now the citizens of Ohio can figure out another way to pay for the financial mess on the horizon.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/8/2011 7:51:26 PM

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Isnt it the same answer every time? Simply bend the taxpayers over and...

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Now the citizens of Ohio can figure out another way to pay for the financial mess on the horizon.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/8/2011 7:58:36 PM

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A victory for unions, a defeat for the tax payers paying the bills..

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/8/2011 8:04:38 PM

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If states hadnt given away so many tax cuts to friends and businesses, they would have the money and wouldnt have to make up their short fall on the middle classes backs.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/9/2011 4:38:50 AM

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Kasich better be glad there is no recall in Ohio or else he'd be done as well. Mr.Jobs has promptly come in and given 0 jobs except the ones he gave to his fatcat friends in the Ohio Business Development Office. He's simply a puppet for Wall Street in Ohio. His open feud with the Republican Party of Ohio Chairman will now increase in fervor.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/9/2011 4:46:51 AM

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A victory for unions, a defeat for the tax payers paying the bills.

Correction:

Union members ARE taxpayers. In fact, as a percentage of their net worth, union members pay more taxes than wealthy drones like Paris Hilton and over-compensated corporate CEOs.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/9/2011 5:24:44 AM

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Isnt it the same answer every time? Simply bend the taxpayers over and...

You can gloat over what the oil companies and banks are doing to the taxpayers all you want. You obviously like the feel of your hands on your ankles. Don't expect the rest of us to feel the same about it.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/9/2011 5:32:30 AM

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A victory for unions, a defeat for the tax payers paying the bills..

While there is nothing wrong with being frugal and trimming the budget. There are ways to do so that aren't counterproductive. Stripping public employees of the ability to bargain for benefits and employment is a lot like a poor person saying, "Times are tough, so I think I'll cut food from the family budget. That'll save me a pretty penny."

When you mess with public employees, you're messing with one of the few sources of stable employment out there.

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RE: Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters - 11/9/2011 7:21:09 AM

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Stripping public employees of the ability to bargain for benefits and employment is a lot like a poor person saying, "Times are tough, so I think I'll cut food from the family budget. That'll save me a pretty penny."

People are in fact doing that... I volunteer at a food pantry and we are giving 10 lbs less food a week to a family of 4. If we are heavy in canned items in certain categories it's not catastrophic. When not, kids miss meals (or in the better cases the parents do).
But for the neo-cons here, collective bargaining implies there could still be organized labor, which is a pocks on mankind to them.

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