Ohio unions make conference call to beg for support

    Ohio Unity Table Teleconference to 2893 union workers.
  Call from AFL CIO live conference, Tim Burger, president of AFL CIO. Sue Taylor AFT president 
  It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Call Senator Mark Wagner to restore cuts from education. House Bill 153 is anti-worker, anti-worker rights, jobs killer.
  Call 1888 218 5931 telephone number for Mark Wagner. Repeatedly asked to call.
1. Remove all language regarding prevailing wages in HB 153.
2. Do not privatize state assets and services.
3. Restore "cuts" to education.
4. take all references about SB 5 out of HB 153
  Status of numbers with getting out the "message" against SB 5. 
  Orchestrated attempt to marginalize union and its workers.
  Goal is to create permanent low wage class of Americans.
  "Good evening, brothers and sisters" Mark Sanders, President of Fire Fighters begins speech.
  Wagner, Wagner, Wagner. Contact Wagner. Concerned about staffing levels cut to cut services while rewarding Kasich's staffers.
  Those who hold public trust are held to a higher standard. Public safety never had partisan approach before.
  Turnpike question. Why is he privatizing? Contact Mark Wagner.
  Bricklayers Union president begins speech. Budget bill and anti-middle class allies will have a bad effect, most profound on my family is language regarding prevailing wage law. 
  Questions being asked are not being answered. All speakers are reading statements.
  Will create a situation like free trade agreements. 
  Employers will compromise safety, compromise quality and compensation. Will raise construction rates. Will affect all taxpayer funded projects.
  Phone number given again, about the tenth or more time.
  Question from listener: How does Kasich believe he's saving money? 
  Answer from Sanders: Kasich pulling a shell game. His budget is $5 billion over projected budget. Will take professionalism away from public employees. You the listener are seeing through him. Will line the pockets of Kasich's cronies. Take jobs away.
  Contact Mark Wagner.
  Question for Bricklayers' Union (police siren in background): Is the country not of the people now but by the rich? (really profound.)
  Answer: We're fightin' 'em. Two types of people-people who work and people who make money off people who work. (Huh.) Money has shifted to upper class. Economy slowed down to nothing.
  (Everything is Brother this and Brother that.)
  Contact Mark Wagner. Stop harmful budget bill.
  Question for Taylor: I'm a student, will be a freshman. Scary about our school's budget cuts. What other cuts are going to be made?
  Answer Taylor AFT: Heartbreaking cuts being made. Need to give priority to giving quality education. This governor cutting $10 billion from education. Wrong with priority. Inferior materials, old textbooks. Staff are laid off. We live in a democracy. Petition the government. Call Mark Wagner.urge students to call number. Petition. Copy to Wagner and Kasich.
  Contact Mark Wagner.
  Question: How can we reverse damage that's already been done?
  Blah blah blah.
  Contact Mark Wagner.
  Sign petition. 35 days to get the referendum on the ballot (not yet).
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