Ohio Bill Attacking Middle Class: No Collective Bargaining Rights Left
By Lynn Ashton on February 18, 2011, 6:56 am
If approved the bill would abolish collective bargaining rights for state employees. It would also affect state agencies, commissions and boards, state institutions of higher education and set new restrictions on school districts. Additionally, the bill required merit-based pay for most public employees, including teachers, and it removes seniority from decisions regarding a reduction in work force for certain public workers.
Reaching Out
“One of the things we’re trying to do is reach out more to the general public, especially through media, but also through a lot of this phone-calling and door-to-door efforts,” Andy Richards, the field communications director for the AFL-CIO in Ohio, said in an interview with The Huffington Post, noting that the protests have helped re-energize a base frustrated by the November elections. “But I think having them as an ally with that, and being able