Ohio protest of SB 5 & We Are Wisconsin rally

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Saturday February 26, 2011 · 3:33 PM PST

2011/02/26 · 15:33

I attended the rally in downtown Columbus, Ohio today. Our SB 5 has yet to be voted on- the final hearing is expected on Tuesday, and a rally is planned for that day. The crowd grew over the course of hour and a half I was there.

Thus far the city's newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch true to form has yet to have any news on the rally; instead they only have a link to a report that SB5 would have "saved an estimated $1.3 billion in 2010 on health insurance and automatic pay increases if the limits imposed by Senate Bill5 were in effect." However, the state's portion of that would only have been $217 million; the rest of that would be from local workers- teachers, policemen, firefighters, sanitation workers, utility delivery workers...

An effort planned for after the rally was a coordinated campaign to knock on the doors of the senators, at home, to deliver the message of opposition to the bill.

Below are photos from the rally this afternoon. Links to Wisconsin were evident- I even saw a cheesehead, though regretfully didn't get a photo.

Holding up a sign: Stop Senate Bill 5:
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Wisconsin logo & educators against SB 5 signs:
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

During the rally:
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Palinism: Refudiate this bill!
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Retired librarian in support of wisconsin employees:
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Unions: the people who brought you weekends!
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

We the people!
Cut wall street, not firefighters!
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

At the beginning
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Updated by sorryfromohio at Sat Feb 26, 2011, 07:07:33 PM

Bailouts & Bonuses to business; breadcrumbs for workers (in front of the Huntington Bank building)
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Kasich's idea of collective bargaining?
#wearewi and we are ohio too!

Updated by sorryfromohio at Sat Feb 26, 2011, 07:29:55 PM

Dayton Daily News did get a photo of the cheesehead!
Quote "With the help of legislative Republicans, Kasich's administration already has turned over Ohio's economic development functions to a semi-private, nonprofit board of CEOs,"

The Dayton Daily News points out the "savings" is already out of date: "Those calculations, however, took into account savings from scrapping union-negotiated wage agreements that the Senate is prepared to allow."