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irisblue

(34,256 posts)
Fri Jun 1, 2018, 07:07 AM Jun 2018

Union Endorsement for DeWine(R)

assholes
http://radio.wosu.org/post/dewine-scores-union-endorsement-avoids-right-work-questions#stream/08
"In what could be a close gubernatorial race this year, Republican nominee Mike DeWine picked up a labor union endorsement today. A nod for a Republican is not unusual for the International Union of Operating Engineers.
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The IUOE Local 18 represents about 15,000 members in Ohio. They’re the heavy equipment operators who build roads and bridges...."

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Union Endorsement for DeWine(R) (Original Post) irisblue Jun 2018 OP
What the heck Ohiogal Jun 2018 #1
Can you say stupid??? ladym55 Jun 2018 #2

Ohiogal

(34,631 posts)
1. What the heck
Fri Jun 1, 2018, 07:24 AM
Jun 2018

“Our agenda is about jobs and creation of jobs. We don’t get sidetracked with all the social issues that are going on," Dalton says.

Those pesky social issues. Like making vulnerable people work a minimum wage job in order to get meager food stamps or Medicaid, Ohio's abysmal infant death rate, Kasich's woman-hating anti-abortion record, Ohio's abysmal charter school debacle ....

oh well. "Not important" I guess.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
2. Can you say stupid???
Fri Jun 1, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jun 2018

IUOE obviously is okay with no longer existing. Do these numbskulls realize that Mike DeWine will destroy them with "Right to Work" laws???

Right to Work is hovering right on the edges in Ohio and waiting for the right moment to come into existence. Let's see how THAT goes for the fine folk of the IUOE.

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