Workers are pounding the pavement showing the everyday impact of Kasich’s measure, SB5, which he pushed through the GOP-run Ohio legislature earlier this year.
They’re also advertising. In one spot, a woman says Fire Fighters saved her 2-year-old granddaughter’s life, yet Kasich’s law would take away the Fire Fighters’ right to collectively bargain for equipment and staffing to make such rescues possible. But the unionists are not really relying on an air war to win. Their troops are on the ground.
The other unionists understand, and have communicated to Ohio voters, that Kasich and his Right Wing backers in their nationwide war on workers and the middle class don’t stop with trashing public workers. Private sector workers are targets, too.
Opinion polls show the unionists’ effort appears to be working: An early-October tally gave the foes of SB5 a 51%-38% lead, while a mid-October survey expanded that to 57%-32%. Kasich’s popularity, the latter survey said, is also in the 30s.
“This is the best effort we’ve ever put forward,” Perlman says. He adds unionists hope it’s a preview of similar enthusiasm for the 201election. Unionists campaigning this year “are all saying ‘We’ve got to do this for the middle class of Ohio.’”
Mark Gruenberg writes for Press Associates, Inc., news service. Used by permission.
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Workers are pounding the pavement showing the everyday impact of Kasich’s measure, SB5, which he pushed through the GOP-run Ohio legislature earlier this year.
They’re also advertising. In one spot, a woman says Fire Fighters saved her 2-year-old granddaughter’s life, yet Kasich’s law would take away the Fire Fighters’ right to collectively bargain for equipment and staffing to make such rescues possible. But the unionists are not really relying on an air war to win. Their troops are on the ground.
“Last weekend we had over 2,000 volunteers” on the streets, says Ohio AFL-CIO spokesman Jason Perlman. Unions expected to field even more on Halloween weekend and 10,000 in get-out-the-vote drives in the final weekend before the election.
“What’s really been great is that every union has come aboard – AFL-CIO, Change To Win, you name it,” even though Kasich’s law would end collective bargaining rights only for Ohio’s 400,000 state and local government workers, Perlman adds.
The other unionists understand, and have communicated to Ohio voters, that Kasich and his Right Wing backers in their nationwide war on workers and the middle class don’t stop with trashing public workers. Private sector workers are targets, too.
Opinion polls show the unionists’ effort appears to be working: An early-October tally gave the foes of SB5 a 51%-38% lead, while a mid-October survey expanded that to 57%-32%. Kasich’s popularity, the latter survey said, is also in the 30s.
“This is the best effort we’ve ever put forward,” Perlman says. He adds unionists hope it’s a preview of similar enthusiasm for the 201election. Unionists campaigning this year “are all saying ‘We’ve got to do this for the middle class of Ohio.’”
Mark Gruenberg writes for Press Associates, Inc., news service. Used by permission.