COLUMBUS - Ohio House Democrats stood in solidarity with their Michigan colleagues and friends by wearing red carnations to House session today.
Ohio workers faced similar unsafe and unfair attacks on their right to collectively bargain, in Senate Bill 5, which was put to a voter referendum and passed with nearly 62 percent of the vote.
"This is a fight we are all too familiar with in Ohio. We stand in support of our brothers and sisters in Michigan and across the nation. Not too long ago men and women fought and died for the right to collectively bargain for safe work conditions and a livable wage, and now that right is under attack again in Ohio and across the nation. Put simply, so called 'right to work' is wrong.
Statistics show states with this anti-working family legislation have lower wages and higher poverty rates. We will continue to stand together and fight against these unfair attacks on workers in Ohio, Michigan and across the country."
