This BS explains Toledo (and Ohio) is in such crappy state
1) This is a quote from the Toledo Blade in an store regarding TARTA's take over or TARPS today.
Larry Chasteen, a TARTA trustee who is the AFL-CIO community services labor liaison at United Way of Toledo, warned that the transit authority could lose local unions' support for future levies if the transit union's members are left out in the cold. "Injury to one union is injury to all unions. That's the motto in this town," he said
2) A propose law that would require businesses over 25 employees to give there Employee's 7 sick days. In a recent poll, roughly 70% of Ohio would vote for it. This shows you the short term/sellfishness of this state. Now.. I personally have a pet peeve about people calling off work for reasons other then what I considered valid (Valid reasons would be personal illness, family illness, and/or vehicle/house issues. FMLA is really a sore spot with me. I have worked (and a result I had bust my ass to cover for them) by countless number of people that have abuses FMLA for hang overs/ cocaine induced migraines/attend a party/laziness. (FMLA doesn't need to go away, but it needs revised majorly) This proposal will only give those same people another way to abuse this system. Personally if I owned a business looking to relocate, I would avoid Ohio like the plaque, and If I was currently located in Ohio, I would searously consider moving to another, more business friendly state.
This is f*&ing nuts.