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BY NICOLE THOMPSON

ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY

A battle is brewing in the Buckeye state. On Tuesday, Ohio residents will vote on whether to repeal a measure signed into law in March by Governor Bill Kasich that could limit union bargaining rights. Fox News has more.

“Teachers, fire fighters and police officers all rallying here in opposition to the measure. It is Senate Bill 5, a new law supported by Republicans and their efforts to limit organized labor. The measure’s up for statewide vote on Tuesday. It would set health care and pension minimums, ban strikes by public workers and cut out seniority-based promotions.”

A Quinnipiac poll released last week shows Ohio voters in strong support of repealing this measure 57 to 32 percent. The Daily Beast’s Linda Killian writes, that wave of support for repeal has been a game changer for the labor movement not only in Ohio, but across the U.S.

“The effort, dubbed ‘We Are Ohio,’ has given the labor movement … a shot in the arm after the prolonged economic downturn thinned union rolls and last year’s election propelled many pro-business Republicans into power... The campaign has already set a record for spending on an Ohio ballot measure.”

A political science professor tells CNN’s Carol Costello, that kind of organizing power could mean good things for President Obama in 2012.

“If you look at the number of signatures that were on the petitions to get this on the bill, you needed a little less than 300,000, and they collected about 1.3 million signatures. (FLASH) These connections that are being made now, this organization among the unions, will probably be a factor in 2012, because they’re probably going to be working for Barack Obama.”

But John McCormack from conservative blog The Weekly Standard argues -- those signing the petition don’t really understand the issue.

“60 percent of Ohio voters support ‘requiring public employees to pay at least 15 percent of their health insurance premiums,’ but 56 percent of Ohioans oppose ‘limiting collective bargaining for public employees.’ Here's the problem with that: In order to require public employees to pay more for their health insurance and pensions (which is popular), collective bargaining must be limited (which is unpopular).”

And the American Spectator's John Fund tells Fox News, stalling this law is actually preventing job creation.

“What the law was designed to do was give local governments the flexibility to renegotiate, you know, soaring health and pension benefits. And we saw that in Lancaster, Ohio the other day. They shut down the fire station, they fired 13 firefighters. And that’s because this law has been frozen in place based on this referendum and the local government didn’t have the flexibility to say ok, if you take a cut here and a cut here we won’t have to close the fire station.”

The National Conference of State Legislatures reports more than 700 bills targeting unions have been introduced in various states in 2011.

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