Biggest rally kicks off (Ohio) SB 5 repeal campaign

[upstatecajun]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Sunday, April 10, 2011
By Jim Siegel



With chants of "We are Ohio," an estimated 11,000 union supporters rallied at the Statehouse yesterday to launch the effort to overturn the law that would weaken public workers' bargaining power.

The crowd was the largest since the debate over Senate Bill 5 began in February. Many also signed up to help collect the 231,000 signatures needed to get a referendum on the November ballot.

"We haven't seen this type of energy since 1983," Michael Weinman, a retired Columbus police officer who was shot and paralyzed in the line of duty in 1998, said of the year the collective-bargaining law was passed in Ohio. He also is the treasurer of We Are Ohio, a coalition of unions and their supporters that organized the rally and is leading the effort to overturn the law.



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I was there. We had 7,000 before the bill passed a few weeks ago.













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[jerseyjack]

1. Does Ohio have provision for recall?

[upstatecajun]

3. No

But two Dem Reps introduced a bill just for that a few days ago. Will not get far in a GOP controlled capital.

[No Elephants]

2. Good for you for being there.

One Tunisian man inspired so many in the Middle East, including the Egyptian demonstrators.

The Egyptian demonstrators inspired labor demonstrators and their supporters in the U.S.

I'm hoping and praying labor demonstrators and their supporters in the U.S. inspire the rest of us.

400 persons own most of Ameria's wealth--and are still getting tax breaks to boot.

Now, the rich are buying up the world's food and arable land, while working class Americans beg for the right to beg for a little more from their employers.

Hell, now we're begging only for the right to make concessions with some modicum of dignity.

Meanwhile, people who wreck the planet and/or the global eocnomy get millions in salary and, wait for it....millions in bonuses EACH, not to mention tax dollars and/or tax benefits.

Seriously, what will it take?

Are we really the ones we've been waiting for, or only the ones who like to be told that we're the ones we've been waiting for?

[AllyCat]

4. So how many really were there? Having attended the protests in Madison, I doubt

what the news puts as attendance numbers. Fight Ohio!!!

[upstatecajun]

5. I would say

Close to 15,000.....it was at least twice as big as one form a few weeks ago. The media here has been playing down the union issues unlike in Masison. However polls are showing around 60% support for repeal of SB5.

[russspeakeasy]

6. Good luck and stay out of jail.

[upstatecajun]

7. LOL

I work for lawyers. I'm a paralegal :woohoo: