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, 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.