An Ohio law aimed at greatly curtailing the rights of public workers has sparked massive protests and what appears to be a successful drive to place it before voters this fall. Opposition has also formed against similar anti-collective bargaining laws in Michigan and Wisconsin.
More than a million Ohioans recently signed a petition to put the law, Senate Bill 5, on the November ballot, in hopes of repealing it, The Plain Dealer recently reported. 
The signatures, the newspaper added, were “ceremoniously” delivered to the Secretary of State’s office in Columbus by more than 6,000 marchers. The newspaper said the more than 1 million signatures “are the most in more than a decade at least,” to be submitted to state officials.
Melissa Fazekas, a spokeswoman for We Are Ohio, a group that launched the petition drive to repeal the anti-collective bargaining law, also lauded the large number of marchers involved in submitting the signatures, saying they “are proof that while our campaign may be out spent, we will never be out worked, or out volunteered or out supported by hard working Ohioans.”
Like his counterparts in Wisconsin and Michigan, Gov. Kasich argued that Senate Bill 5, which The New York Times noted could cut public sector jobs in parts of the state where the private sector has long stopped producing opportunities, is necessary to help local officials overcome budget shortfalls.
In a guest post for ACSblog, Ohio State University law school professor James J. Brudney, said the claims in both Ohio and Wisconsin that fiscal conditions are the reasons to limit collective bargaining have been “exposed as a smokescreen.”
Brudney continued:
Fiscal crises are occurring in states like Texas and Virginia that bar collective bargaining. And 2010 budget deficits are as high in the nine states that banned collective bargaining for most all public employees as in the fifteen states that allowed it for theirs. Tellingly, leading proponents of Senate Bill 5 asserted as their core justification for the bill not money but flexibility. The Senate bill author and Ohio’s governor talked constantly about the need for flexibility to manage Ohio’s public workforce. Yet Ohio’s experience since collective bargaining became lawful in 1983 makes it very hard to make a case for inflexibility.
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