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VIDEO: Kent State Faculty Protest Senate Bill 5 at Kent Stage Rally

AAUP members gather for what they say could be first of many local rallies

Faculty and staff at rallied together against Ohio Senate Bill 5 at the Kent Stage Tuesday night.

The rally, organized by the Kent State Chapter of the AAUP both tenure track and full-time non-tenure track, featured several speakers and opened and closed with acoustic-guitar protest ballads.

The bill, which narrowly passed the Ohio Senate, is the topic of hearings this week in the Ohio House. If signed into law, the measure would all but eliminate collective bargaining powers for teacher, police, firefighter and other public worker unions across the state.

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