From [HERE] Columbus - Chants of "Kill the Bill!," "Recall!" and "O-H-I-O, Kasich's Ass Has Got To Go!" were the soundtrack for thousands of protesters who descended on Ohio's State Capitol Tuesday morning to demonstrate against Republican efforts to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights.

 Senate Bill 5, which passed by the narrowest of margins in a 17-16 vote last week, would allow state and municipal employees to bargain only for wages. Health benefits, pension plans, hours, vacation time, working conditions and all other terms of employment would be off the table.

 In the event that a deal cannot be reached between a public sector union and management on wages, the legislative body with jurisdiction would be allowed to step in and accept its own last offer made. Strikes would also become illegal for public sector workers.

 "This is the most powerful attack on workers in our time. But is also raises the most important question of economic justice in our time," U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who was at the rally to support protesters, told EconomyInCrisis.org.