To kill government union reform in Ohio, Ohio’s NEA affiliate charged every member an extra $54 this year. The Ohio Education Association (OEA) has contributed $5.8 million to a $30.5 million campaign whose message is equal parts simple and dishonest: Vote NO on Issue 2 on November 8th to help repeal Senate Bill 5, the unfair attack on employee rights and worker safety in Ohio. | Read More »
Inconveniently for the union bosses fighting to kill Senate Bill 5 in Ohio, school district budget forecasts are public record. So, when the people who get rich driving up the cost of government try to blame local deficits on Governor Kasich, it’s easy to disprove their lie. Government unions have put pressure on Ohio taxpayers for years, and there are reams of data to support | Read More »
Opponents of the reforms in Issue 2 blame busted local budgets on the way Governor Kasich handled the $8 billion deficit Ted Strickland left behind. In effect, government union bosses who thrive on a broken status quo insist the problem is too little spending. Like all leftists who decry spending cuts, union bosses want to raise our taxes. For proof, consider Ohio school districts’ five-year | Read More »
In the fight against government union reform in Ohio, the Ohio Education Association (OEA) is the largest donor by a landslide. Ohio’s NEA affiliate charged every member $54 to help kill Senate Bill 5, and they’ve dumped $5.8 million into a $30.5 million campaign whose message is equal parts simple and dishonest: Vote NO on Issue 2 on November 8th to help repeal Senate Bill | Read More »
Union bosses in Ohio and Washington, D.C. are – oddly enough! – opposed to the sensible government union reforms in Ohio’s Senate Bill 5. Exactly how opposed? Combine yesterday’s cash and in-kind numbers from the Ohio Secretary of State with the figures from July, and you’ll see that unions have sunk more than $28 million into the campaign against Issue 2. Out of $30.5 million | Read More »
Promoted by Jeff We Are Ohio insists Issue 2 – in addition to being unnecessary – is “unsafe, unfair, and hurts us all.” I’ve thoroughly covered the hypocrisy of a D.C. union front pretending to have Ohioans’ interests at heart… is there anything trustworthy about the group’s talking points? Unlike their other arguments, We Are Ohio’s complaint that Senate Bill 5 is unnecessary cites academic | Read More »
We Are Ohio, a union front funded primarily from D.C., hates government union reform. The group takes offense at any suggestion public employees should answer to the public, and attacks taxpayers who dare question Ohio’s broken status quo. Since “union bosses oppose union reform” isn’t the most effective slogan, We Are Ohio’s campaign does some real acrobatics to smear the sensible policies in Senate Bill | Read More »
The hits keep coming in the dishonest campaign against government union reform in Ohio. This week Jack Reall, President of International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 67 in Columbus, sent the following in an email: Is there anyone union bosses won’t hide behind to shield the huge salaries they take from government workers? Does IAFF not realize this sort of transparent cynicism will only | Read More »
If you had to pick one theme from the smear campaign against union reform in Ohio, class warfare would be the obvious choice. Dishonest union talking points about a GOP “attack on workers” are nothing new, and have been the cornerstone of every marketing piece from union front group We Are Ohio. Corporations – not excessive spending, bureaucratic favoritism, or capricious regulation – are blamed | Read More »
I’ve reported previously that We Are Ohio, the group lying its pants off to kill Senate Bill 5, is funded chiefly by D.C. unions. Yesterday, Hot Air noted that the National Education Association (NEA) plans to spend as much as $5 million more to block the reforms passed by Ohio’s elected leaders. If NEA is genuinely concerned about Ohio teachers, they are saints compared to | Read More »
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