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That s $10,000 more than what ted strickland was earning when he was governor. kasich is still eligible for an automatic 3% annual raises which senate bill 5 eliminated for public union workers. republicans in ohio are no different than any of the other republicans across this country. they think shared sacrifice means sacrificing middle class americans, need to do more than the top 1% or 2%. joining me now is sue taylor, she is the president of the ohio federation of teachers. jack real is the president of the columbus firefighters union local 67. jim gilbert, president of the fraternal order of police, capital city, lodge number 9. sean grayson, the general counsel for afscme number 8. sue, to you think the republican legislators earn their pay as opposed to you folks? i don t know one teacher or ....
Disabilities, i would tell you, nothing is hand-given to us. these are things we fight for and advocate for. kids learning environments are those working conditions. what s the average teacher in cleveland, ohio make? the average teacher is around $50,000 a year. so this would, obviously, force them to lose discretionary income and also bargaining rights, correct? correct, correct. it is basically aimed at taking away the voice of the teachers and balancing the budget on their backs. maureen, i ve seen some commercials in ohio. governor kasich has commercials running with all the kids saying if we keep kids in ohio, we have to support senate bill 5. what s your response to that? i d like to say if you want to keep quality teachers in ohio, you need to stroet no on issue 2 to repeal senate bill 5. do you think the governor has been an honest broker through ....
There s been a tremendous misinformation campaign here the last 24 hours, with robo calls, all the way from sarah palin to pat boone, throwing out information that s not true. the fact is is that a no vote is what the firefighters in this state want. a no vote is what the workers of this state want. and to attack collective bargaining is the wrong way to go to fix the budget. and one more thing in this, not to be too long winded, but the fact is that no one in this state, in my last 48 hours of being here, has been able to put a number. if senate bill 5 is upheld and it stays law, give me a number of what it s going to do to help the budget. they can t do it. of course they can t. ed schultz, thank you for joining us. good luck tonight. and of course, we ll be watching you at 8:00 p.m. eastern live from ohio here on msnbc. and it s now time to clear the air. and ever since he embarked upon his campaign, it s been hard to ....
That i have every bit of safety equipment i need to come home the next day. the firefighters here, we didn t cause the economic downturn in ohio. i know that the teachers didn t. i know the police officers didn t. i know all the other hardworking public employees did not cause the economic problems here in the state of ohio. so what did they do here in ohio? well, the grassroots coalition of senate bill 5 opponents launched the we are ohio campaign on april 9th. more than 10,000 people attended a rally here in columbus. in less than three months, the group delivered 1,298,301 signatures to the ohio secretary of state. 1 million more signatures that was needed to put it on the ballot. the ballot signatures put senate bill 5 on the ballot this november and written up as issue number 2, giving voters tomorrow the final say on where they re going to go on this issue. ....
Workers. but just to give you a snapshot, about a half a mile from here, a precinct for voting place, they re at 15%. they re telling us that s a very good number in an off-year election. but the next three hours are going to be very crucial here in ohio. a lot of these folks who are going to be affected by this senate bill five, they re at work right now. they get off work at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, and the polls close at 7:30. you ve got to get to the polls and vote and do the due diligence to make this thing turn around for workers in ohio. the next three hours will be very crucial. they re expecting a very good turnout. so far, it s been above average today. john, i saw you sorry, ed, i saw you inviting governor john kasich to front up, to be a man. i know what you look like physically, so that s more challenging than many of our viewers might realize. what did you think of his failure to come down and confront the workers whose collective bargaining rights he ....