Wednesday, March 23, 10:30AM - 12:00PM COLUMBUS WORKER RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE

• WHERE: U.S. Senator Rob Portman’s Office, 37 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH

• WHAT: Ohio GE Workers Rally with Picket Signs and Banners for Press Conference at Sen. Portman office in Columbus, Deliver Petition Calling for Action to Stop Oho Job Cuts

• SPEAKERS: 

  • Carl Kennebrew, President of IUE-CWA national labor union 

  • Tim Burga, President, Ohio AFL-CIO 

  • Will Evans, President, IUE-CWA Local 84704

  • Barb Basore, GE Lighting Bucyrus plant worker whose family has provided a combined 500 years of service to the company

  • Today, March 23 at 10:30AM, dozens of Ohio General Electric workers will protest job cuts recently announced by the company impacting nearly 200 local workers in the Northern Ohio region. These GE workers, who are union members of IUE-CWA, will hold a Columbus rally and press conference at U.S. Senator Rob Portman’s office to deliver a petition calling on the Senator and Congressional leaders in both parties to act to save these Ohio jobs.