Show focusing on workers to air from Toledo on MSNBC

9/13/2011

MSNBC’s The Ed Show is to air from Toledo on Wednesday with host Ed Schultz focusing on America’s declining manufacturing base and Ohio’s fight over collective bargaining rights.

The live televised town hall meeting scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. is to be held outside, at Washington and South Huron streets across from Fifth Third Field. The show’s host is inviting the general public to attend.

Guests on the one-hour show are expected to include Toledo Mayor Mike Bell; Leo Gerard, International president of the United Steelworkers, and U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo).

Its Web site said the “most important” guests will be American workers. “This is an opportunity for Ed to speak with the workers who will be directly affected by S.B. 5 and focus attention on policies that have eroded the manufacturing base in this country,” according to a statement.

Senate Bill 5, passed this year by the Ohio General Assembly, restricts public employee collective bargaining. A referendum to repeal the law will be on the Nov. 8 ballot in Ohio as Issue 2.

— Tom Troy