Ohio Union Law Opponents Say They Have Enough Signatures To Get Repeal On Ballot

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining law say they have enough signatures to get a repeal question on November's ballot.

The We Are Ohio campaign said Monday it has surpassed the roughly 231,000 valid signatures needed to ask voters whether the law should be tossed out.

The campaign based its findings on preliminary results from 63 of the state's 88 counties. The group says it has more than 800,000 valid signatures.

County elections officials were to report their signature review to Secretary of State Jon Husted's (HYOO'-steds) office by Monday. Husted has until July 26 to verify whether the opponents have met the requirements.

The contentious law bans public employees from striking and restricts collective bargaining rights for more than 350,000 teachers, police officers, state employees and other public workers.

Comments

[ultrawiz]

10:36 AM on 07/19/2011

Go Ohio! Show the right that people will not tolerate their bullying tactics!

[JFoxCPT]

10:06 AM on 07/19/2011

Three Cheers and more for We Are Ohio! Bring back the middle class and worker's rights, collective bargaining and economic justice! Show John Kasich the way back to corrupt Fox News.

[joemondo]

10:03 AM on 07/19/2011

The Republicans who used to want to go back to the 1950s seem quaint and harmless, compared to the current crop who want to go back to the 1350s.

[Ojodelgato]

04:23 PM on 07/19/2011

They like that whole idea of The Divine Right of Kings.

Of course, they'll be the kings when this is all done.

[Holymolly]

08:26 AM on 07/21/2011

Terrible example.

[zetacplus]

02:13 AM on 07/19/2011

Instead of repealing all this GOP legislation maybe they should just stop electing republicans.

[murphysgirl]

09:21 PM on 07/19/2011

Hopefully that trend will stop come 2012!!

[RebelSoul]

01:06 AM on 07/19/2011

Do you hear that sound Tea Party? That's the sound of the people with torches and pitch-forks, now, coming for you!

You were created to spare the corporations from having to own up to any responsibility and to be fair you did well at attacking Main Street instead of Wall Street.

However this time, they want your head.

[brianlasvegas]

12:03 AM on 07/19/2011

Unions had a purpose at one time. Now they have become exactly what they originally fought against. Their greed leads to bankruptcy of both private(GM) and public(Look at every State, City and county in the country) organizations. Its members are blinded by their own greed, while their leaders abuse the power obtained, often over their own members.

Union leaders seek to Unionize the entire country, which they say will elevate everyones standard of living. This has already been tried as a huge failure. It is called the Soviet Union. The greed of unions will only destroy our country, as it did the Soviet Union.

Fact- Work just a little harder than your union brothers, and that initiative is attacked promptly. Want to lower productivity, Unionize the whole country. Just ask Gorbachav and Castro, both on the record admitting the big communist union was a failure.

[Quitcherbichin]

12:20 AM on 07/19/2011

Your comments are right on, Brother. Fanned.

[Just a passerby]

06:32 AM on 07/19/2011

The OP is just a propagandist, and you are another.

[madisonhack]

12:38 AM on 07/19/2011

spam

[Holymolly]

08:30 AM on 07/21/2011

What are u spamming about? Show me a union worker that works a full eight hours, I'll even drop it to six hours a day, and I'll eat my horse! And take that grin off your face!

[Al Bristol]

10:26 PM on 07/18/2011

Libs can't win debates with facts so just stop it.

[Sisa]

10:27 PM on 07/18/2011

Really I'll debate you.

[Patriot86]

02:00 AM on 07/19/2011

They debate by sticking their finers in their ears and spewing talking points.

[NoWayMan]

10:29 PM on 07/18/2011

...said the factless poster.

[arlandbaee]

10:16 PM on 07/18/2011

If your next door neighbor is anti union, publicize that information. Their name, their job and their income if you know it.

Thanx

[Quitcherbichin]

12:22 AM on 07/19/2011

That's fine with me. In my neck of the woods I would be a hero.

[madisonhack]

12:40 AM on 07/19/2011

Love that trailer park......it suits you.

[brianlasvegas]

12:45 AM on 07/19/2011

That works both ways. Personal attacks are never acceptable in the making of public policy.

[arlandbaee]

02:37 AM on 07/19/2011

That's interesting. Is that how DOMA came about? Personal attacks on gays never created public policy.

[Oregon Mick]

09:58 PM on 07/18/2011

There is something that doesn't make sense. Ok, there are a lot of things that don't make sense.
The hayday of the Union movement was the 1950's & 60's. By the mid 1980's Unions were so much toast. So, the Tea Party is ever going on about Union destroying the American industrial base but was still alive until the 1990's. It was shipping American factories overseas that ruined the industrial base and that was done after Union had lost their influence. If you chart it, American industry was healthiest when Unions were strongest. So how do they get the rap for joblessness?

[juhar]

11:28 PM on 07/18/2011

fanned and favorite.

One thing that you've done that Tea Party members haven't even thought about doing is take a look at US History and see who is responsible for what. The Tea Party was a corporation-brought grassroots of people who believed Obama was on a spending spree giving Wall St everything that they wanted and Main Street nothing. They were lead to believe the Obama Administration would destroy America by giving healthcare to everyone at the expense of their Medicare and Social Security. What the Tea Party hasn't figured out yet is that their silent corporate backers want the Obama Administration to stop all federal regulations in banking and environmental protections so that business can make larger profits and continue to employee the cheapest labor and it seems that their idea is to make Americans without unions work for the same wages, without healthcare as third world nations. The GOP goal is that jobs will be coming after Unions are destroyed, costly environmental health guard for the workers don't exist, healthcare for workers is too costly for businesses to pay anymore and government doesn't regulate businesses and the banks. Welcome Third-World America brought to us by the Tea Party as a tool for corporate America.

[Oregon Mick]

11:45 PM on 07/18/2011

The wierd thing is that the job moved to India (socalist) and China (Communist), Doesn't that kind explode the whole Tea Part theory of economics?

[Quitcherbichin]

12:30 AM on 07/19/2011

The union mantra is: Do as little work as possible, for as long as possible, for as much money as possible. The private sector unions are down to about 7% of the workforce. The public employee unions are more of a factor; hence the push by states to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees. That is as it should be. Public employee unions are holding the taxpayer hostage to their exorbitant salaries and benefits. The days of the gravy train are over.

[madisonhack]

12:41 AM on 07/19/2011

Lies......

[Oregon Mick]

01:46 AM on 07/19/2011

I've worked mostly non-union jobs, only one union job, I worked hard in both. Nobody ever told me not to do my job, where do you get you ideas anyway?

[Al Bristol]

09:52 PM on 07/18/2011

UPDATE FOR YOU LIBERALS:

S.P just upgraded OHIO from a negative rating to STABLE.After 6 mos of Gov kasich and passing the budget with the collective bargaining removal from the public employees.

DID you get that,Can you read that?

If not then read it S-L-O-W-L-Y.

So in 6 months OHIO which was dying and on decline after that horrible democrat governor.The state has solved it's 8 bill dollar budget,They are creating jobs,thier credit rating are going up,With NO TAXES and they have jumped 11spots in buisness friendly.

Only to a liberal does that mean Failure,and a cause to repeal him and the bill.

[Oregon Mick]

10:04 PM on 07/18/2011

Sounds like the old MBA remedy.
Cut expenses: cut engineering, cut quality control, cut R&D.
Expenses go down, profit goes up, get out before the chickens come home.

[Quitcherbichin]

11:28 PM on 07/19/2011

People from the Socialist Republic of Oregon should not be throwing stones.

[NoWayMan]

10:36 PM on 07/18/2011

HAHA!!
Kasich came into office in Jan 2011.
unemployment has been going down in Ohio since Feb. 2010.

so your claim of six months this and six months that is just hogwash.

oh well...
keep trying.

[BobbyNCorpus]

09:28 PM on 07/18/2011

Those are our brothes and sisters under attack by teh republican attack dogs in Ohio. Lets aupport them. Remember , next time they will be coming for us. in union there is strength

[MobahoJoe]

09:09 PM on 07/18/2011

GO HIO

[daybranch]

08:24 PM on 07/18/2011

We turned in over 1 million 298 thousand signatures. We found an overwhelming majority of people we ctalked to favored repeal of Senate Bill 5. Governor Kasich has now signed House Bill 194 which severely restricts voting. I believe the required signatures , 1000, were already collected for us to start the process of getting petitions printed to collect the over 230 thousand signatures to put the option of appealing HB 194 on the ballot. Keep it coming Governor Kasich. Your actions are adding more and more to our numbers.Soon we will change the state constitution to remove you.

[chrisr266]

10:26 PM on 07/18/2011

Yep, Day.
We have had enough of this angry, arrogant and boorish man.
His agenda is turning Ohio into a serf state.
A few million of us are done with him.

[JenInOhio]

02:10 AM on 07/19/2011

Amen Chris.

[alunsulen]

11:45 PM on 07/18/2011

This will be defeated by the taxpayers, and then the libs will blame the corporations :P

[madisonhack]

12:44 AM on 07/19/2011

I'm a lib, pro-union, and pay taxes. Who are you talking about?

[l2fog]

08:01 PM on 07/18/2011

Unions need to get out of politics altogether and be concerned for one thing only: Workers rights and benefits in the work place and have no part in the political process. Working with management to improve the PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY of it's UNION members along with benefits and pay.

[traceymarie]

09:30 PM on 07/18/2011

okay....when corporations get out of the political process and start wotking on creating American jobs, hiring and building in America and WORKING with the actual workers to help America...."k bagger

[LeftyLee]

09:14 AM on 07/19/2011

You GO girl !

[arlandbaee]

10:14 PM on 07/18/2011

?&(*U(*(OKJNJKLHKHJ

FU

[Quitcherbichin]

12:40 AM on 07/19/2011

If you say so.

[LeftyLee]

09:16 AM on 07/19/2011

arlandbaee, do you have a green card???? Such jibberish

[l2fog]

07:57 PM on 07/18/2011

I bet more people that work in Ohio move from there once they retire then stay. Most of them union members. It's just like New Jersey, they are great state to retire from..

[traceymarie]

09:32 PM on 07/18/2011

again, lets see these corporate behemouths actually pay TAXES and hire AMERICAN workers and stop buying bagger'repub polititians to do their dirty bidding

[l2fog]

06:53 AM on 07/20/2011

Your the one that wants a President that allows illegals free run of the ranch. Let's see this President make e-verification the LAW OF THE LAND. In that way everyone hired in America will be an American citizen or a documented alien. For your information also UESI is full of illegal aliens as members.

[Quitcherbichin]

12:42 AM on 07/19/2011

With the exception of VT, NH, and ME, the rest of the NE states are wonderful places to retire from.

[l2fog]

06:54 AM on 07/20/2011

Far away from. You are right. Most go south to a state with no state income tax.