Strickland Ships More Ohio Jobs to Other States

(Columbus) - Fifteen more Ohioans are out of work today because the Strickland administration outsourced their jobs to a company in North Carolina, despite a lower bid from the Ohio firm.

The Associated Press reports a Fairfield-based company "has laid off 15 employees because it lost the state's business, which would have been worth about $3.5 million a year." A company official says the bid would have been about $1 million less than the contract awarded to the North Carolina company.

"Ted Strickland is not only failing to uphold his commitment to fiscal discipline, but he's also breaking his promise to keep state contracts in Ohio," said Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine. "His administration is now actively putting Ohioans out of work. More than 330,000 jobs have been lost on the Strickland-Fisher administration's watch, and it's shameful that the only jobs they've managed to create are in Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina."

The Strickland administration has failed to keep thousands of jobs in Ohio, as major employers relocate to other states. NCR, one of the Dayton region's largest employers, announced in June that the company would move its corporate headquarters to Georgia. DHL, one of Southwest Ohio's largest employers, announced in April its headquarters would move to Northern Kentucky.

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