* Keep the phone calls and emails going to the members of the Ohio Senate to defeat SB 5.
They might not know that you are against this awful legislation that unfairly targets public employees. Contact the following state senators ASAP:
Kevin Bacon: Phone: (614) 466-8064
Email: SD03@senate.state.oh.us
Jim Hughes: Phone: (614) 466-5981
Email: SD16@senate.state.oh.us
Tim Grendell: Phone: (614) 644-7718
Email: SD18@senate.state.oh.us
Tim Schaffer: Phone: (614) 466-5838
Email: SD31@senate.state.oh.us
Scott Oelslager: Phone: (614) 466-0626
Email: SD29@senate.state.oh.us
Frank LaRose: Phone: (614) 466-4823
Email: SD27@senate.state.oh.us
Karen Gillmor: Phone: (614) 466-8049
Email: SD26@senate.state.oh.us
Larry Obhof: Phone: (614) 466-7505
Email: SD22@senate.state.oh.us
Tom Patton: Phone: (614) 466-8056
Email: SD24@senate.state.oh.us
Jimmy Stewart: Phone: (614) 466-8076
Email: SD20@senate.state.oh.us
Kris Jordan: Phone: (614) 466-8086
Email: SD19@senate.state.oh.us
David Daniels: Phone: (614) 466-8156
Email: SD17@senate.state.oh.us
Check the following website for the contact information for the state senators: If you don't have access to a computer, call the toll-free legislative hotline at 1-800-282-0253 (466-8842 in Columbus).
* Last year, public employees in the state of Ohio were furloughed 10 days + additional time. Some lost as much as the equivalent of 14 days of pay. However, those employees who worked directly with elected officials were not covered by the furlough mandate.
* Wisconsin's labor situation is a mess. Gov. Scott Walker seems like he is trying to blame everything on those unions that did not support him. Here is an interesting piece of information from TPMMuckraker:
The reason state workers are so outraged by Walker's actions, Kind said, is because they spent all last year negotiating and making $100 million in concessions with then-Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle only to have Republicans state legislators kill that bill then have a new governor come in and deny their negotiating rights.
"[Walker] didn't even come back and sit down with them," Kind told TPM. "Public employees are willing to contribute their pound of flesh. He wasn't even willing to talk to the teacher unions despite 17 separate requests from them for meetings with him."
Sounds like Walker doesn't even respect his public employees enough to sit down and talk.