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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Ohio</title>
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		<title>How Progressives Won the Labor Rights Showdown in Ohio</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/26/how-progressives-won-the-labor-rights-showdown-in-ohio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/26/how-progressives-won-the-labor-rights-showdown-in-ohio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Our Allies and Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB-5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The labor movement and its allies scored a major victory with the repeal of Ohio Senate Bill 5 (SB5), a piece of anti-union legislation signed by Republican Gov. John Kasich. In a referendum that gave voters a chance to speak on the issue, Ohioans resoundingly rejected the law, which would have gutted the bargaining rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Results Show Voters Say Focus on Jobs, Not Partisan Attacks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/14/ohio-results-show-voters-say-focus-on-jobs-not-partisan-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/14/ohio-results-show-voters-say-focus-on-jobs-not-partisan-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011 elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cincinnati Fire Fighters (IAFF) member&#160;Doug Stern says yesterday’s overwhelming rejection of Gov. John Kasich’s (R) attempt to eliminate collective bargaining rights of workers&#160;like firefighters, nurses, teachers, bridge inspectors and others shows: [T]he citizens of Ohio spoke and they made it loud and clear that the focus of government should be on creating sustainable middle class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Sanity</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/12/the-return-of-sanity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/12/the-return-of-sanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meyerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Lepage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The common thread in yesterday’s unbroken string of Democratic and progressive victories was the popular rejection of right-wing overreach. From Ohio, where voters overturned by a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent Republican Governor John Kasich’s law stripping public employees of collective-bargaining rights; to Maine, where voters overturned by a margin of 60 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s Big Win in Ohio</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/11/labors-big-wins-in-ohio-elsewhere/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/11/labors-big-wins-in-ohio-elsewhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Press Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trumka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Organized labor racked up a big win in a crucial state, Ohio, on Nov. 8, defeating Right Wing GOP Gov. John Kasich’s plan to kill collective bargaining for state and local workers by a 63%-37% margin. The Associated Press called the referendum on Kasich’s law, SB5, just before 10 p.m., Eastern Time, with 904,391 “no” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judgment Day in Ohio</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/11/judgment-day-in-ohio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/11/judgment-day-in-ohio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meyerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical GOP shenanigans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be that all the millions of dollars spent by both sides and the tens of thousands of precinct walks they (well, chiefly labor) undertook in the battle to repeal Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, which nullified the collective-bargaining rights of the state’s public employees, merely ensured that Ohioans would vote the way they originally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nov. 8, 2011: Ohio Voters Repeal Anti-Worker Law</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/10/nov-8-2011-ohio-voters-repeal-anti-worker-law/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/10/nov-8-2011-ohio-voters-repeal-anti-worker-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Trumka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 8, Ohio voters repealed SB5, which took away the right of public employees to bargain for a middle-class life. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined working families at the phone bank and walking door to door to get-out-the-vote against the law, pushed by Gov. John Kasich and passed early in 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Voters to Kasich: No, No, No</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/ohio-voters-to-kasich-no-no-no/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/ohio-voters-to-kasich-no-no-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand Up Fight Back]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical GOP shenanigans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ohio voters today resoundingly overturned the anti-worker agenda pushed by Gov. John Kasich (R), Republican state lawmakers and outside interest groups, which took away the right of public employees to collectively bargain for a middle-class life. Moments ago, the vote was called: Buckeye State voters said “No” to Issue 2. The Associated Press reports it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nov. 8, 2011: Ohio Voters Overwhelmingly Repeal Anti-Worker Law</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/nov-8-2011-ohio-voters-overwhelmingly-repeal-anti-worker-law/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/nov-8-2011-ohio-voters-overwhelmingly-repeal-anti-worker-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendum. anti-worker law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB2]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 8, Ohio voters repealed SB5, which took away the right of public employees to bargain for a middle-class life. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined working families at the phone bank and walking door to door to get-out-the-vote against the law, pushed by Gov. John Kasich and passed early in 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Run for America</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/12022/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/09/12022/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected the effort to revoke basic worker rights, delivering a stunning rebuke to conservative Governor John Kasich. That spark was lit in Madison, Wisconsin last winter when workers took over the state capitol and launched unprecedented recall elections that sobered right-wing Governor Scott Walker and the Republican state legislature. The Occupy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Unionists Ramp up Campaign vs. Anti-Worker Law as Vote Nears</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/02/ohio-unionists-ramp-up-campaign-vs-anti-worker-law-as-vote-nears/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/02/ohio-unionists-ramp-up-campaign-vs-anti-worker-law-as-vote-nears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Press Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Hoffa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio Issue 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio SB5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFCW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite favorable public opinion polls, Ohio unionists are taking nothing for granted and are ramping up their campaign to repeal Right Wing Gov. John Kasich’s anti-worker anti-union law, as a Nov. 8 referendum on it nears. Workers are pounding the pavements showing the everyday impact of Kasich’s measure, SB5, which he pushed through the GOP-run [...]]]></description>
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