Ohio Workers Keep Losing Thanks to Big Labor’s Win

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  January 17th at 09:08 PM  | 

In Wisconsin, Governor Walker’s public union reforms are pummeling the Big Labor narrative by saving taxpayer dollars and teachers’ jobs. Meanwhile, the professional class-warriors who get rich pushing “solidarity” force districts into layoffs by refusing to revisit unaffordable contracts. After similar reforms failed in Ohio thanks to a smear campaign exceeding $30 million, Ohio’s public workers are enjoying the sort of union victory that’s often | Read More »

Union Bosses Win, Ohio Workers Get Fired

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  December 15th at 04:16 PM  | 

One month ago Ohio voted with its heart against reforms portrayed as an attack on public workers. Ohio, DC, and New York union bosses spent more than $30 million drenching the airwaves in images of sad firefighters, sad police officers, and evil Republicans, convincing voters to overlook a broken status quo. A month later, how are local governments celebrating the union victory on Issue 2? | Read More »

According to Sherrod Brown, Union Reform is Unchristian

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  December 11th at 08:51 PM  | 

Sherrod Brown (D-OH) isn’t merely the most extreme Progressive in the U.S. Senate, he’s also a religious scholar. Week in and week out, Sherrod preaches the Gospel of Progressivism: Greater love hath no man than he who gives generously from his neighbor’s purse. Sherrod delivered a stirring speech on the Senate floor during the smear campaign against public union reform in Ohio: In order to | Read More »

With Union Reform Down, Kasich is Not Out

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  December 5th at 10:10 PM  | 

The landslide loss of Issue 2 this month prompted glee from Ohio leftists, whose contribution to the state in the past year has been to smear and sue conservatives at every turn. The Ohio Democratic Party, the unions, and Progressive fellow-travelers want desperately to believe their $30 million anti-reform campaign killed Governor Kasich’s entire agenda so they can resume demanding tax hikes. Elevated discourse at the | Read More »

Issue 2 Post-Mortem, Ohio Pre-Mortem

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 9th at 09:00 AM  | 

Though the Wisconsin union circus produced widespread union-reform fatigue, you might be wondering what went wrong with Issue 2 in Ohio. As an Ohio conservative who happened to start researching government unions a few months before the General Assembly tackled reform, here’s my educated guess! Executive summary: The unions spent several boatloads on dishonest class warfare, and Ohio voters failed to see through it. First, | Read More »

Help Ohio Fight Union Bosses and Obamacare!

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 7th at 08:30 AM  | 

From 2000-2010, Ohio lost 595,200 private industry jobs, faring better than only Michigan and California. In 2010 the state had the 7th-highest tax burden and 47th-best business climate. Although Governor Kasich has been working since January to get Ohio back on track, the forces of statism are deeply entrenched. As public record proves, many of these folks get rich portraying big government as a moral | Read More »

Yes on Ohio Issue 2 for Teachers, No for Unions (Part 3)

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 4th at 09:30 AM  | 

When they aren’t taking $54 from every member for an anti-reform smear campaign, Ohio Education Association (OEA) bosses pass the time by fighting with their employees. Is it weird that Ohio’s largest government union hawks expensive “solidarity” to teachers, while its managers can’t event get along with its staff? “Bad Faith + Bad Management = Consequences” …not if union bosses have anything to say about | Read More »

Ohio Unions Don’t Care About Taxpayers

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 10:30 AM  | 

Back when the professional staff of the Ohio Education Association (OEA) had an official blog, this endearing quote from Socialist author Jack London was featured in the right column of every page: “Esau was a traitor to himself: Judas Iscariot was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a strikebreaker is a traitor to his God, his country, his | Read More »

Pre-Kasich Ohio Deficit Forecasts: The $2000 Club

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 08:30 AM  | 

In the union universe where We Are Ohio represents mainstream voters, there are two types of people: those who support limitless power for government union bosses, and evil fat-cats eager to throw Ohio schoolchildren off a cliff. Advocates of smaller government are shunned as racist yokels while the useless hipsters of Occupy Wall Street are heroes for standing up to the man. Governor Kasich, elected | Read More »

BOMBSHELL: Employees have “No confidence” in Ohio teachers’ union boss

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 08:30 AM  | 

There’s something union front We Are Ohio doesn’t want you to know about their largest donor, the Ohio Education Association: OEA has such a history of internal strife, it’s obvious OEA bosses are awful negotiators. This is a tiny problem for people who siphon millions from teachers on the strength of their negotiation skills, don’t you think? I’ve covered in depth the unlovely things OEA | Read More »