OH Sick-Day Petitions Awash in Signatures; Verification Next
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The Columbus Dispatch: A union-led coalition that needs 120,683 valid signatures to give voters the chance to decide whether full-time workers get at least seven sick days a year submitted nearly 242,000 names. Ohioans for Healthy Families unveiled a television ad it plans to air as part of a multimillion-dollar statewide TV buy. The commercial features a mother agonizing about leaving a sick child at home to go to work. "Every day, thousands of middle-class Ohioans face a gut-wrenching choice: take care of their sick child or spouse or lose their paycheck -- or even their job," an announcer says. A business coalition opposing the issue vowed yesterday to "do whatever is necessary" to defeat it. Critics say the issue will be a "jobs killer" and hurt a sputtering economy because no other state requires sick days. Opponents also said the filing of petition forms makes a compromise sought by Gov. Ted Strickland on the matter "impossible." They sent a letter to the governor yesterday asking him to urge proponents to drop the ballot issue. "Now that supporters have drawn a line in the sand, our energies are best spent fighting the mandate with the full resources available to us," said John C. Mahaney Jr., treasurer of Ohioans to Protect Jobs and Fair Benefits. Healthy Families spokesman Dale Butland said that although issue proponents are willing to discuss a compromise that includes paid sick days, so far there is no proposal on the table.
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