The #TakeBackOhio Labor 2018 campaign is well underway and we are conducting our second Day of Action this Saturday to elect candidates like Rich Cordray for Governor, Sherrod Brown for US Senate and pro-union candidates up and down the ticket.…
By Bruce Bostick COLUMBUS—A massive crowd, estimated at over 15,000, descended on the Ohio statehouse July 12 demanding that a rapidly growing crisis in our nation’s pension system be fixed. A sea of camo shirts and caps worn by miners…
Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Ohio unions are under attack and need to be strengthened, Richard Cordray, the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, told a convention of plumbers and pipefitters in Dayton on Thursday. Cordray brought a message tailor-made for unions…
By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The house. Food on the table. Survival. Those are some of the ways workers and retirees who demonstrated in Ohio's capital Thursday described the pension payments they are fighting to…
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States: Judge Kavanaugh has a dangerous track record of protecting the privileges of the wealthy and powerful at the expense…
For Immediate Release Contact: Mike Gillis 216.334.9068 COLUMBUS – On Wednesday June 27th, The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in the Janus v. AFSCME 31 case. In response to that decision, Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga…
On Wednesday June 27th, The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in the Janus v. AFSCME 31 case. In response to that decision, Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga issued the following statement: “This decision comes just as…
Ohio AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Petee Talley released the following statement in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Ohio towns of Sandusky, Canton, Massillon and Salem. “In the face of multiple devastating worksite raids in less…
By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says the matter was “overlooked.” But, for nearly 100 Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents, it represents the loss of nearly $2,000 each stemming from the disappearance for three straight…
Even in a strong year for Democrats, Republicans assumed they could count on the Ohio governor's race. Maybe not. A new Enquirer / Suffolk University poll – the first statewide, independent poll since the Ohio primary – showed Democrat Richard…