Ohio Group Drops Fight Over Sick-Day Mandate (Strickland opposed the issue)

[The Straight Story]

Ohio Group Drops Fight Over Sick-Day Mandate

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Labor leaders on Thursday dropped their campaign for a ballot issue that would give most full-time workers seven paid sick days a year.

Members of Ohioans for Healthy Families, an advocacy group that supported the sick-day mandate, said they have agreed with a request by Gov. Ted Strickland to keep the issue off the November ballot and avoid a negative and divisive campaign fight.

"We have not changed any of our core beliefs about the need for paid sick days for Ohio workers," said Gloria Fauss of Ohio for Healthy Families Coalition. "We have simply decided we are not going to move it to the ballot this year we are going to work together for a national bill."

Strickland opposed the issue, saying it would hurt the state's economy.

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