2009 Top Legislative Agenda Items
Energy Legislation is moving through Congress. Get the update here.

The Ohio AFL-CIO is working with its affiliates and other labor organizations to pass legislation that will help bring back a strong middle class to Ohio. Click on each agenda item below to download a one-page brief.
Buy American
Support Child and Home Care Collective Bargaining
Support Township Fire Fighters
Hold Charter Schools Accountable
Help 110,000 Ohioans Receive Healthcare >>

Ohio Unemployment Fund Information
The Columbus Dispatch editorial on the call for the need of a bipartisan solution to the unemployment fund issue. Says The Dispatch, "The governor and legislature should develop a long-term remedy to the inadequate funding of unemployment insurance. The federal government is riding to the rescue for December, January and February as the state applies for loans totaling $550 million." Read more. >>

Ohio Unemployment Fund is Sinking: As projected, the Ohio unemployment trust fund is going broke and the state has now asked the federal government for a $550 million loan to cover unemployment compensation costs through February 2009. In July, 2008, Governor Strickland commissioned a study  which projected the current deficit and provided recommendations.>>

Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)
Senator Voinovich Lets Down Working Families - The Employee Free Choice Act has a Majority Vote but Senate Rule Stymies It. Read more >>

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