Published Wed, Sep 28, 2011 8:04 am Dateline Labor unions in
Ohio are grabbing the headlines right now, as they fight for a
repeal of a bill that strips government employees of collective
bargaining rights and historically southeast Ohio has a big
connection to the fight for worker's rights. The Executive
Director of the Athens County Historical Society Museum says
that the United Mine Workers of America may have be born in
southeastern Ohio. Ron Luce says if we look back at our history
we could solve the political problems we currently face. "So
many of the issues we see going on right now today, right here
in Ohio and in Wisconsin and in other places in the country
dealing with labor problems, are things that have been dealt
with before and they keep coming back around as if we haven't
really learned from history," says Luce. Luce says the Athens
County Historical Society Museum has several pictures and
artifacts that detail the early history of labor unions in the
region. To learn more about the exhibit an