COLUMBUS — The well-funded campaign behind the 2011 repeal of Ohio’s collective bargaining law is throwing its might behind a constitutional amendment that would take away elected officials’ power to draw legislative and congressional districts.
COLUMBUS — The chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party on Wednesday handily beat back a challenge to unseat him in a party squabble with implications for this fall’s presidential election in a critical swing state.
COLUMBUS — The labor-backed organization behind a 2011 campaign against Ohio’s sweeping collective bargaining law said Monday it’s ready to unleash its army of volunteers, email contacts and social media followers against an emerging right-to-work initiative in the state.
COLUMBUS — The successful campaign to repeal Ohio’s collective bargaining law last fall has drawn teachers and other public workers into Democratic primary races across the state as the party tries to regain seats in the Republican-dominated Legislature that passed the measure.
COLUMBUS — Campaign records due to the state on Friday will reveal how much both sides spent in a fall ballot fight that ended with the defeat of Ohio’s sweeping new collective bargaining law.
COLUMBUS — Buoyed by voters’ overwhelming rejection of a Republican-backed union law, Ohio Democrats are looking to capitalize on support from labor groups that have traditionally favored GOP candidates as their focus shifts to next year’s races and efforts to repeal early voting changes and throw out a new congressional map.
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.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Votes on immigration, union rights and President Obama’s health care law could hold hints of the American public’s mindset, four years into an economic downturn and one year from the presidential election.