Posted on 07/12/2018 11:42:41 PM PDT by Libloather
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The house. Food on the table. Survival.
Those are some of the ways workers and retirees who demonstrated in Ohio’s capital Thursday described the pension payments they are fighting to protect.
“It’s everything, mostly, because you worked all of them years,” said Duane Ross, 61, of Cadiz, who spent 30 years in the mines.
Ross was among thousands of unionized coal miners, iron workers, teamsters, bakers, tobacco workers, millers and others who descended on the Ohio Statehouse to rally ahead of a congressional field hearing in Columbus. They brandished signs saying “Save Our Pensions” and wore T-shirts that reminded politicians, “We Are Everywhere.”
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Find the Democrat politicians who promised things that could never be delivered, and get the money from them.
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