Pro-union rallies, Ohio is NEXT!

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - While the capital of Wisconsin is the scene for the first battle in the civil war brewing between unions and anti-union Tea Partyers over whether collective bargaining for public workers should be tweaked and continued or totally terminated, the capital of Ohio is apparently where the second battle will take place, even as some Republican Buckeye senators say it's being handled in a confrontational way that other like-wise thorny issues avoided.

Defuse the situation

Republican Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati said he would have preferred "a more consultative process and a less confrontational process,” according to The Columbus Dispatch. Seitz, an attorney, pointed to how negotiations on issues like asbestos, tort reform, DNA and criminal investigation were handled as a marker for how Ohio should tackle the issue of collective bargaining for public employees.

“You defuse the situation. You avoid the three-ring circus of public hearings, which simply escalate controversy. And you get the relevant stakeholders in rooms for as long as it takes to hammer out an adult agreement,” he told Dispatch reporter Jim Siegel. Seitz added, "I don’t think throwing this out there was conducive to getting a good agreement.”

Lighting the fuse


But far from defusing the situation, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Republicans who didn't hide their animosity toward public unions in their respective runs for governors last fall, have each taken a hard stance against public unions. Kasich, who has said he doesn't believe public workers have a right to strike, said that if public unions are not tamed in SB 5 to his satisfaction, he'll take matters into his own hands when he submit his two-year budget on or before March 15th.

http://www.examiner.com/government-in-columbus/ohio-union-friends-tea-party-foes-square-off-on-capitol-square

It's really the people against the rich elites and corporations, such as
the Koch Bros.

These governors are lockstep in their attacks on unions.

He's already in deep doo-doo with the electorate, even those that supported him, over huge salary increases he gave to his inner circle, while the rest of the state budget is in free-fall.

He plays hardball at the risk of his office, there is already talk of a recall movement.