The extreme right’s battle against organized labor is taking another turn in Ohio:
Just two days after voters overwhelmingly killed legislation restricting collective bargaining for public employees, Tea Party activists and a nonunion trade group Thursday launched a campaign to put a broader crackdown on union rights on the statewide ballot in 2012 or 2013.
The proposed right-to-work constitutional amendment would prohibit making union membership a condition of employment.
Chris Littleton of West Chester Twp. in Butler County, a Tea Party leader and co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council, said at a Statehouse press conference that the amendment would provide “work place freedom for every single Ohioan.”
It takes signatures from 385,253 registered voters to put an amendment on the ballot and Littleton said that it might take until the November 2013 election to meet that requirement.
This appears might be going to far even for a lot of Republicans:
However, Republican leaders distanced themselves from the amendment. “Job creation” is the top priority, Rob Nichols, spokesman for GOP Gov. John Kasich, a key backer of Senate Bill 5, said in an email.
Actually this is nothing more than a continued assault on workers right by the extremists that have taken over America’s right. The people spoke in Ohio on Tuesday and told the state to stop limiting bargaining rights of Ohio’s public workers. The Tea Party, in their closed, cult like mindset, can’t acknowledge that so now they are going to try to make it even a broader assault. It’s no wonder that the Tea Party’s popularity is going down in flames. Thankfully more Americans have awoken to the bullshit these people push and are turning them away.