The Plain Dealer reports on big Cleveland business advocating for SB5 provisions in the budget
The merit-based pay system, which mirrored language in Ohio's controversial new collective bargaining law, was included in the budget proposal previously passed in the House of Representatives. But the Senate has removed the merit system from its version of the budget.
"Without a strong education system, we can't find the knowledgeable workers we need," Greater Cleveland Partnership Senior Vice President Carol Caruso said at a Statehouse news conference.
The Greater Cleveland Partnership is the name the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce hides behind. They recently set aside $50,000 for their worker assault. You can see a list of the businesses that want to attack middle class workers who are their customers, here. Companies like:
- American Greetings Corp. who took tax payer money to stay in the state.
- Alcoa who also took a boatload of tax payer money in the form of tax breaks.
- The Cleveland Clinic, which has been in a tax battle to avoid paying taxes for years.
- The Cleveland Indians Baseball Club with their tax funded stadium.
The lsit goes on and on, and includes banks that received billions in tax payer bailouts, non profits funded by tax dollars, and even local governments.
Rather than attack their own customers, and tax payers who have generously supported their various enterprises, maybe they ought to just say thank you and be on their way.