Columbus, OH – With 14 days until Election Day, Ohioans know that Bernie Moreno’s campaign has been “clouded” by a “slew of lawsuits for workers’ wages and workplace discrimination” and telling “lie after lie” to Ohio workers. 

From refusing to pay his employees what they were owed and deliberately destroying evidence to get out of it to lying about selling Chinese-made cars that Ohio workers say “shipped Ohio jobs overseas,” Bernie Moreno has shown Ohio workers he won’t fight for them.

14 Things Ohio Workers Are Saying About Moreno’s Record Of Stiffing Employees And Screwing Workers: 

1. Tim Burga, Ohio AFL-CIO president: “With working people your word is your bond… Moreno has proven he can’t be trusted.”

2. Dave Green, Former President of Local 1112 in Lordstown: “We need somebody in office that’s going to earn the support of working people… not a car salesman who continues to lie about what he’s doing and how he’s doing it.”

3. Tony Totty, UAW Local 14 President: “Bernie Moreno was sued for stealing wages from workers. How can you be pro-worker when you’re stiffing them in their paycheck?”

4. Jeff Adams, UAW Local 1219 President: “If [Moreno] was really for the people, people wouldn’t have to sue him to get their overtime pay… If he didn’t pay his employees, how is he going to care about the American people[?]”

5. Mary Ola Stemple, Former Lordstown GM Employee: “Bernie Moreno is not standing up for people like me, he is too busy putting himself and his profits first. Moreno’s business decisions hurt Mahoning Valley workers and families, and he has proved he will not fight for us.”

6. Jose Arroyo, Vice President Of The Mahoning-Trumbull AFL-CIO Labor Council: “Bernie Moreno has shown Ohio workers over and over that he does not care about anyone besides himself. He lied to us about selling cars made in China at the expense of Ohio workers and lied to us about not paying his employees the overtime wages they earned. It is clear that Bernie Moreno is not on our side and that we can’t trust him.”

7. Jim Devlin, UAW Local 1112 Vice President and Former Lordstown GM worker: “I know that Ohioans need a Senator who will fight to keep our jobs here – not one who made his fortune selling cars manufactured in China, because decisions like that led to Lordstown closing and Ohio jobs being shipped overseas.”

8. George Jeffries, UAW Lima-Troy Cap Council Chairperson: “He stole from his own workers, and he steals from people that he might see every day. What’s going to keep him representing us 14 million Ohioans, whom he never expects to meet?”

9. Tiffany McKee, United Steelworkers: “Well as a staff representative, I fight against exactly what Bernie Moreno is every single day, against people that want to take advantage of our workers.”

10. Brett McElfresh, Pipefitter: “We don’t need someone trying to steal wages from U.S. workers anymore.”

11. Frank Papini, President of USW Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees: “We don’t agree with what Bernie Moreno is doing. I think [he is] a fraud, he’s caused a lot of problems with workers…”

12. Mel Woods, UMWA Local 1304 Financial Secretary: “…Moreno is nothing but a liar.”

13. Dave Dilly, UMWA Ohio Coal Miners Political Action Coordinator: “He was a car salesman and it’s my understanding that he screwed over some of his employees.”

14. Jeff Gase, UAW Region 2B Central Ohio CAP Council Chairperson: “[Moreno’s] just a big fat cat. He wants all the profits. He wants the money. Wants it for himself.” 

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