Julie Carr Smyth
Associated Press
COLUMBUS: Crowds of public employees protesting a sweeping Ohio proposal to strip unions of collective bargaining rights are wearing red in an effort to steer public opinion away from the idea that unions are all-Democrat organizations.
The move came as union protests by firefighters, teachers, police and state workers were joined by a smaller number of tea party activists who support the legislation. The measure would end collective bargaining and replace negotiated salary schedules with merit raises.
The bill represents the biggest challenge in recent memory to Ohio unions, emerging after Republicans took control of the legislature and governor's office this year.
Gov. John Kasich backs the bill and even more stringent union limitations. His Democratic predecessor, Ted Strickland, made a brief appearance amid the crowd Thursday and drew cheers.
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Let’s turn Columbus into Cairo!
My landlord is a State employee and a Huge supporter of Kasich.I’m almost 100% sure that he is more than willing to give up his bargaining rights and lower his take home pay for the Governor. He may have to raise the rent to make up the difference but then again he probably doesn’t mind having to look for new tenants.
President’s Day Rally, Monday February 21st at 11:00- 2:00 around the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Go to Facebook and search for the page “No SB 5 for Ohio” and go to the website http://www.stopsenatebill5.com to hear of upcoming events and to share info. We must unite in opposition. STOP Senate Bill 5! Website has shirt and slogan ideas. This bill may be voted on this Tuesday!
It’s time to bust public sector unions. They result in the worst kind of machine politics.
Are you sick of high paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – baby sit! We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM
with 45 min. off for lunch and plan — that equals 6 1/2 hours).
Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now how many do they teach in day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET’S SEE…. That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 peryear. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children
X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student–a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your
kids!)
your an idiot i think they deserve every thing they get for putting up with all the bullshit of trying to educate our children.putting up with smartass kids talking back and they cannot do anything about it. if you think there job is easy why don”t you try it out.ill bet you wont last a week.and for your info they get a choice on their pay check either get a higher check for 9 months or a lower check for 12 months. So you not paying them for a vacation. about that you dont want pay for their vacation but its ok for your employer to pay for yours!!!!!! idoit
Maybe you should read through the whole letter, Jason. The beginning is tongue in cheek.
When President Reagan took office in 1981 the top federal tax rate was 70% and had been 70% since 1964 and 94% clear back to 1945.For 36 years the United States had been controlling the national debt very well which was only in the billions of dollars. As Reagan slowly reduced the top federal tax rate from 70% to 28% over his eight years in office the national debt tripled to almost 3 trillion dollars and a new era of buy now pay later had began. Today the national debt is 14 trillion and growing…
We are told by experts to cut this or cut that or extend the 10 year tax cut that has not created jobs or reduced the debt.That old saying fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me comes to mind. The only thing that has not been tried to reduce the debt is the tried and true method that worked for 36 years before Reagan which is increasing the top rates back up to 70% or 94% if need be.Sometimes you have to bite the bullet before its to late.
Yeah, high taxes! Lets imprison citizens, too!
The Gov. in my opinion is a idiot and most of the people in Ohio are too for voting him in office. i knew what he was going to do thats why he didn’t get my vote, he is the worst thing that ever happen to this state.he talks about cutting spending ,then why did his top staff get a raise when he took office. Like i said………… ASSHOLE
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