{"id":4201,"date":"2011-03-03T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2011-03-03T05:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:36:21","slug":"ohio-republicans-assault-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/ohio-republicans-assault-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Republicans Assault Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin is just the tip of the iceberg in the Republican scheme to establish a 1,000 year Republican Regime of one party rule through busting unions, and with them, Democrats\u2019 ability to run competitive political races.  In Ohio, the Senate just passed a horrid union busting bill and use extraordinarily sleazy tactics to bring it to the floor.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3union\"The Ohio Senate on Wednesday narrowly approved a sweeping bill that would weaken the powers of public employee unions to negotiate contracts<\/strong>, propelling Ohio into the vanguard of states seeking to revise public-sector labor laws. <\/p>\n

The vote came as union supporters protested the measure for a second day on the grounds of the Statehouse in Columbus. The GOP-sponsored bill passed the Senate 17 to 16, with six Republicans voting against it. <\/p>\n

As the roll call finished, dozens of union supporters in the Senate gallery chanted "Shame! Shame! Shame!" Screeches and shouts echoed down the corridors of the Statehouse, where hundreds of opponents of the bill had gathered for the day’s events. <\/p>\n

The bill next goes to the House, where it is expected to pass, and then to the desk of Republican Gov. John Kasich, who is expected to sign it\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz has the details on how Republicans got this bill out of committee, by shamefully replacing members of their oen caucus.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

There is nothing Republicans will not do to gain a stranglehold on America.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin is just the tip of the iceberg in the Republican scheme to establish a 1,000 year Republican Regime of one party rule through busting unions, and with them, Democrats\u2019 ability to run competitive political races.  In Ohio, the Senate just passed a horrid union busting bill and use extraordinarily sleazy tactics to bring it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}