Tim Ryan: “Carrying oxygen tanks and everything else. And there just has been a disrespect for that kind of work--the sanitation…”

“Carrying oxygen tanks and everything else. And there just has been a disrespect for that kind of work--the sanitation worker, the custodian, the teacher--pushing the blame of all society's problems onto these public workers in that instance. Then, now in Ohio, for example, they're coming in and they want to make it a right-to-work State. So those building trade folks who we're going to try to get back to work, there's 20 percent unemployment in the trade. We're trying to get them back to work with the infrastructure investments that we need to make. To say to them, ``You're not going to be allowed to have a fundamental right of collectively bargaining and to be able to negotiate contracts, and it's going to diminish the wages and everything else,'' similar to what happened or what they wanted to do in Ohio--it's about respecting these people. And when you respect them, they'll come to perform, but it takes those investments and that general appreciation.”