Union push doesn’t represent majority

Never before have I witnessed the strength of the unions as shown by Ohio’s vote on Senate Bill 5 on Nov. 8. The strength was garnered from the massive influx of union money used to fight the bill. Not only was manpower brought into Ohio by unions but they spent $30 million to defeat this bill.

Of course, unions are funded by compulsory deductions from worker’s paychecks. Too bad all this wage earner money isn’t given to help out-of-work union workers instead of funding political parties and union pet projects.

It seems that the new union slogan is they are helping middle class America, but I live in middle class America and worked full time for more than 37 years in middle class America and no union ever helped me.

And, no, their victories against business never spilled over into nonunion business. Union demands only managed to force American businesses overseas. Only 11.9 percent of workers in the United States are unionized, and in Ohio only 14.2 percent of the workers are unionized. Yet this 14.2 percent has managed to stop any progress on trying to balance the Ohio budget and reduce the deficit.

Trumpka was grinning from ear to ear on his victory and stated that any Republican governor who doesn’t heed Ohio’s results does so at their own peril. It is truly amazing that 86 percent of Ohioans let a minority of 14 percent dictate Ohio’s financial future.

The new law was only asking for the 350,000 public sector union workers to participate in helping by paying into pensions like all nonunion workers plus other basic wage/benefit concessions that all nonunion workers make every day.

It is true that public sector employees participate in admirable professions; however, so do many private sector employees

The defeat of Senate Bill 5 was a huge step backward for solving the economic problems of Ohio’s unemployment and just another reason why companies are moving to right-to-work states.

Gail Rose

Huntley