WASHINGTON — A divided House approved a $3.6 trillion Republican budget on Thursday recasting Medicare and imposing sweeping cuts in domestic programs, capping a battle that gave both political parties a campaign-season stage to spotlight their warring deficit-cutting priorities.
The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment.
CLEVELAND — AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka led organized labor’s final push Monday in a fierce election battle over Ohio’s collective bargaining law. Gov. John Kasich headlined election-eve rallies backing the law. The issue on Tuesday’s Ohio ballot asks whether to keep the law limiting the collective bargaining rights of more than 350,000 public workers.
COLUMBUS — Wildly conflicting estimates make it difficult to determine how public and private pay compares in Ohio, and millions are flocking to new online salary tools to peek at the salaries of government-paid friends, neighbors and politicians.
CINCINNATI — Vice President Joe Biden, saying organized labor is under the most direct assault in generations, urged a major Ohio union gathering Monday to lead the way in fighting back. “It’s time to turn the tide in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida … and it seems to me that’s exactly what you’re doing here in Ohio,” Biden said, referring to a campaign led by Ohio unions that will try to overturn in a November statewide vote a Republican-pushed new law restricting collective bargaining for public employees.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Union leaders passed on meeting with Ohio Gov. John Kasich Friday to discuss a possible compromise over the state’s new collective bargaining law, rebuffing an effort intended to remove a question from the November ballot asking voters to repeal it.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters will get to decide in November whether to repeal the state’s new collective bargaining law, which would let public worker unions negotiate wages but not health care, sick time or pension benefits.
Gov. John Kasich unveiled a $55.5 billion, two-year state operating budget on Tuesday that he said can’t be compared to past proposals because it is contains so many innovative approaches to state operations.