From the Columbus Dispatch…
Unions that 'make things' will get chance to help
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 02:54 AM
By Mark Niquette
Gov.-elect John Kasich's views on public-employee unions, especially teachers unions, are well known. He even has joked that the teachers unions should take out full-page newspaper ads apologizing to him for what they said about him during the fall campaign.
But Kasich said last week that he's willing to work with "unions that make things" to help improve the state's economy.
"With organized labor, look, the public-employee unions, particularly the teachers union, you know how I feel about them," Kasich said during the Republican Governors Association's annual meeting in San Diego, where there was a lot of talk from the governors and governors-elect about reigning in public employees' pay and benefits.
"But for the unions that make things, I'm going to sit down with them. And I'll tell you what, they're going to become part of the solution, not part of this problem. And I'm going to give them a full opportunity to participate. We're going to give everybody a chance to pitch in."
As for unions or other groups that might be gearing up to oppose him, Kasich referenced a speech he made to lobbyists and other special-interest groups two days after the Nov. 2 election when he told them to get on the bus or "we will run you over with the bus."
"These people do not frighten me, scare me or bother me, but they need to become part of the solution," he said. "And if they do, they're all going to be better off."
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