United States public employee protests

Ohio’s Senate voted 17 to 16 in favor of a controversial bill that would effectively end collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. This is the first step towards passage of the bill –  a political move that could impact similar battles playing out in Wisconsin and Indiana. Unions called the vote the biggest blow to […]

Over 70,000 people gathered in front of the capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday –  the largest crowd since the protests began –  to continue decrying Governor Scott Walker’s efforts to limit state laborers’ collective bargaining rights. Part of the outcry has been that the changes were included in the state’s budget bill.  It seems highly likely […]

In a vote early Friday morning, Wisconsin’s Assembly passed a bill that strips collective bargaining rights from most public workers. The bill now goes to the Senate, where the state’s 14 Democrats still haven’t come home.

In Wisconsin, demonstrators are protesting a state bill that would cut state workers’ ability to bargain collectively. Wisconsin isn’t the only state where union battles are blazing. Ohio Public Radio reporter Bill Cohen explains the latest.

Joining us is Democratic State Senator Bob Jauch from Wisconsin District 25, one of the senators who left the state Capitol. He calls the bill an unprecedented attack against workers and says he wants to give them time to voice their concerns.