Please help if you can-from The Ohio AFL-CIO re: public employees

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This is an emergency. Have you sent an e-mail to your Ohio senator yet opposing Senate Bill 5? If not, please take action now. If you’ve already written your Ohio senator, please keep reading. There’s more to do.

S.B. 5 would scrap collective bargaining rights for public service workers in the hopes of destroying unions entirely and undermining Ohio’s middle class.

If you haven’t already, please send an e-mail to your Ohio senator NOW opposing S.B. 5.
http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=M%2FZEYaMvUO5xLSR18UU9fggqnqFXeT26

If you have already written to your state senator or want to do more, you can:

1) Take off Thursday and attend the hearing of the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee at 10 a.m. in the South Hearing Room of the Statehouse in Columbus.

2) Call your senator—click here to get the number and talking points.
http://www.ocsea.org/getthefacts/default.asp

S.B. 5 is a distraction from the balanced approach needed to create jobs and solve our budget crisis and lowers the bar for all Ohio workers at a time when they are struggling to make ends meet.

Instead of focusing on solving the economic problems facing Ohio and creating family-sustaining jobs for the 500,000 Ohioans who still remain jobless, this bill scapegoats hard-working public service workers, unfairly blaming them for Ohio’s economic and budget woes.

As K.J. Watts, a firefighter from the Lancaster area, says: “Lawmakers need to stop trying to blame workers for a budget crisis that politicians created, and they need to focus on rebuilding our economy instead of hurting the communities we serve. We want to work with lawmakers to come up with balanced solutions to get us out of this mess. Senate Bill 5 is not the way to do that.”

Please send an e-mail to your state senators now. Urge them to vote NO on S.B. 5.
http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=RjOo6Zg8%2BZMw82WeoHbTFQgqnqFXeT26

In solidarity,

The Ohio AFL-CIO

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6. I called yesterday and sent emails Senator in Delaware Co.

The wife did too.

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7. Thanks I Am Going To Try To Go To Columbus Tomorrow, Too

I've passed this on to friends, hopefully some of them will call or email