Collective Bargaining In The Public Sector: Battleground State

Gop Agenda Dept: In part, it showed that the coalition that helped elect Mr. Obama in 2008 could be reassembled and gain an early organizational advantage over Republican forces in a key battleground state. Ohioans voted to strike down the law, a key plank of the GOP agenda in Ohio and other states, by a resounding 61 per cent to 39 per cent, according to Globe and Mail. Ohio was not the only state in which Democrats poured the bubbly on Tuesday and so, Tuesday s victory of an Ohio ballot initiative aimed at repealing Republican Governor John Kasich s sweeping new labour legislation which all but eliminates collective bargaining in the public sector was welcome news at the White House. We Are Ohio, the group behind the repeal effort, outspent proponents of the legislation by 4-to-1. Its organizers and volunteers, recruited from union, youth and Democratic ranks, could now to migrate to Obama for America for the 2012 campaign. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.