Ohio Workers, Services Under Fire
Against The Current vol. 152
Connery, Michael
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3271
Date Written: 2011-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13771
As in so much of the country after the recent election cycle, a newly-elected Republican administration has taken the reigns of state government in Ohio. The centerpiece of their ambitious austerity agenda is the notorious Senate Bill 5, which will severely restrict the collective bargaining rights of most public sector workers in the state. The bill has galvanized a section of Ohio workers to a degree not seen a decades. On March 31, Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed SB 5 into law, but the movement to defeat the bill still carries on.
