CNN Politicalticker:
A majority of Americans say they oppose attempts to take away the collective bargaining rights of public unions, according to a new national poll.
A USA Today/Gallup survey released Wednesday indicates that 61 percent of the public would oppose a move in their state to pass a bill that would take away some of the collective bargaining rights of union government workers, with one in three saying they'd support such a move.....
....According to the poll, 53 percent of Americans would also oppose a move to reduce pay and benefits the state provides for government workers to reduce the budget deficit, with 44 percent backing the idea.....
Republican Governors have gone after groups of people who did not support them. Union members, teachers, firefighters, police, nurses, public employees overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic candidate, Ted Strickland, in the last Ohio election. Gov. Kasich, his business cronies, and his overpaid staff members, are going after the middle class workers.
Kasich, who wants to make cuts and yet has promised to lower taxes, especially for the wealthy, has unfairly targeted public employees. His demand to have managers control everything, sets up the possibilities for abuse. Kasich and the Republicans want to end seniority rights on the job. Usually, when there are layoffs, the most recently hired are given layoff notices before those with more time on the job. If SB 5 passes, public employees who are close to retirement could be fired and thereby lose their retirement. (Public employees do not contribute to Social Security, but only to employee retirement funds.) In Kasich's world, managers would control your destiny and workers would lose rights.
