Labor & Employment Law

Poll: Ohio Voters Reject Gov. Kasich

By Tula Connell

A new poll finds the majority of Ohio voters, like their Wisconsin counterparts, oppose their governor’s moves to take away the right of public employees to bargain for middle-class jobs. And for good reason, as this fantastic New York Times piece points out today.

A Public Policy Polling poll released Tuesday found that if Ohio voters had it to do over, they?d pick Democrat Ted Strickland over Republican John Kasich for governor.

According to the poll, Strickland would win a re-do election, 55-40 percent. Kasich knocked incumbent Strickland out of office in November, 49-47 percent.

The poll also found that if Senate Bill 5?legislation to limit collective bargaining rights for public workers?becomes law, that voters would back repealing it at the ballot box.

The poll found that 54 percent would vote to repeal the law, while 31 percent would vote to keep it.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).