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Certainly become a bright spot in the u.s. economy responding to increased consumer demand. carmakers, both foreign and domestic, are adding literally thousands of jobs to their u.s. plants. in addition to new highs they're also bringing back some experienced workers who were laid off during the recession. although some of these experienced workers may find it's not exactly the same job when it comes to payday. listen. >> the benefits packages have definitely been lower and a lot of those plants are not unionized. so that has been some of the discussion. uaw has been interested in unionizing s...

Hundred job and odd place to take a victory lap. a hundred jobs. >> at the same time you have a caterpillar adding 1400 jobs in a right to work state like georgia, possibly nonunion jobs and we'll have to wait and see about that, but many people, many democrats will tell you that the only kind of good job is a union job. and certainly, the democrats in an election year need to cash and the clout of unions, need more union jobs in the private sector in this country in order to fund those campaigns. now and years to come. >> yeah, ben, the president wants to be a cheerleader for jobs, that's gre...

Kasich made it his priority to go after union rights and the people of ohio broadly speaking did not like that at all. the state hated that idea, in fact, again. see, the last time ohio voted on union rights was in 1958. republicans back then wanted to outlaw union shops and proposed a constitutional amendment which they put before the state's voters. ohio voters rejected the republicans' big union busting idea back then hugely and in the process they replaced the republican governor with a democratic governor. they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and gave democrats every s...

Union shops with a constitutional amendment that they put before the state's voters. they were just going to roll back union rights. guess what happened. ohio voters not only rejected the republicans' big union-busting idea, they rejected it by a 2-1 margin. they overwhelmingly opposed the republican-led efforts to strip union rights. they also replaced the republican governor with a democratic one. and in that same election they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and every statewide office outside of the courts and every single statewide office except for the secretary of sta...

Living was back in 1958. republicans wanted to outlaw union shops with a constitutional amendment that they put before the state's voters. they were just going to roll back union rights. guess what happened. ohio voters not only rejected the republicans' big union-busting idea, they rejected it by a 2-1 margin. they overwhelmingly opposed the republican-led efforts to strip union rights. they also replaced the republican governor with a democratic one. and in that same election they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and every statewide office outside of the courts and every s...