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51-648: In 2014, he began work for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen governmental affairs team. Hagan was born and raised in Youngstown , Ohio . He attended Ursuline High School . His father, Robert E. Hagan , was also involved in politics. His brother, Tim Hagan , served for many years as a county commissioner in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and was the 2002 Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio . Before entering electoral politics, Hagan worked for 15 years as

102-427: A "buckwheat" , a word that some consider to have racist connotations. It was not directed at Thomas. Hagan said "buckwheat" was a term he had been using "since he was a kid" and that it no longer carried racial connotation for him. On April 27, 2012, Hagan was uninvited to speak at the graduation ceremony of Mercy College School of Nursing at the request of Bishop George Murry, S.J. of Youngstown, just four days before

153-633: A "National Protective Association of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the United States". Benjamin Hoxie was elected president, and William D. Robinson secretary. The organization held a number of meetings up to the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, but did not make much progress. In April 1863 nineteen locomotive engineers met at Robinson's house and decided to form the brotherhood. At

204-603: A Hagan for State Senate sign was found burnt in Youngstown's Wick Park neighborhood. In response, Hagan blamed "extremist cowards" for the act of vandalism, stating "This is emblematic of the violent anarchy of the Republican ruling class.". In response, his opponent, Senator Rulli, denied involvement, alleging the act was an "inside job" by the Hagan campaign and offered a $ 5,000 reward to anyone who could provide video evidence of who burnt

255-399: A ballot; while anyone can be a write-in candidate , a candidate desiring that his or her name appear on printed ballots and other official election materials must gather a certain number of valid signatures from registered voters. In jurisdictions whose laws allow for ballot initiatives , the gathering of a sufficient number of voter signatures qualifies a proposed initiative to be placed on

306-590: A case exchange pleadings until a cause for a hearing is settled. Black's Law Dictionary specifies it as an obsolete method used in admiralty cases. In the United States, the "act on petition" has been used in maritime cases. The first documented petitions were made by slaves building pyramids in Ancient Egypt who petitioned for better working conditions. In pre-modern Imperial China petitions were always sent to an Office of Transmission ( Tongzheng si or 通政司 ) where court secretaries read petitions aloud to

357-506: A civil lawsuit that seeks only money (damages) might be called (in most U.S. courts) a complaint . An initial pleading in a lawsuit that seeks non-monetary or "equitable" relief, such as a request for a writ of mandamus or habeas corpus , custody of a child, or probate of a will, is instead called a petition . Act on petition is a "summary process" used in probate , ecclesiastical and divorce cases, designed to handle matters which are too complex for simple motion. The parties in

408-468: A government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer called supplication . In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to an official and signed by numerous individuals. A petition may be oral rather than written, or may be transmitted via the Internet. Petition can also be the title of a legal pleading that initiates a legal case. The initial pleading in

459-532: A host of emotional problems. In April 2010, Bob Hagan co-sponsored a measure to legalize marijuana in Ohio. Unsuccessful in his bid for Mayor of Youngstown, Hagan sought to return to Ohio House of Representatives to succeed term limited Sylvester "Sly" Patton . Against six others for the nomination, Hagan won the primary with 37.59% of the vote. He won the general election with 58.08% of the vote against Republican John Johnson. Hagan, in 2008, won reelection with 84.9% of

510-568: A locomotive engineer for CSX Transportation. In 1986, he was elected to a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 53rd Ohio House district, centered on Youngstown, Ohio . At the time, his father, Robert E. Hagan , was also serving in the House. Between 1986 and 1990, the Hagans were the first father and son to simultaneously hold seats in the Ohio House of Representatives. Hagan served in

561-606: A meeting on 8 May 1863 in Detroit the name "Brotherhood of the Footboard" was chosen and Robinson was elected as the first grand chief engineer. It was a mutual aid society which created a variety of accident, death and burial insurance programs for its members. According to Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa , the BLE was America's earliest labor union. It was the first of the "Big Four" of railroad worker brotherhoods. The others were

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612-461: A point. In February 2006, he placed a spoof request for co-sponsors for a fictional piece of legislation called the "Republican Adoption Ban of 2006." The bill was meant as a response to HB 515, which was a ban on adoption by homosexual or bisexual people or couples, and in presenting the fake legislation Hagan cited so-called "credible research" indicating that children in Republican households had

663-537: A reduction of pay, and the engineers went on strike. Charles Wilson publicly criticized their action. The brotherhood called a special meeting in Cleveland on 25 February 1874 at which Wilson was forced to resign and was replaced by P.M. Arthur . When Arthur took over, the country was entering a financial depression after the Civil War boom. Wages were unstable, working conditions were poor, and strikes were frequent. Arthur

714-522: A resort in Florida. Through mismanagement, these projects ran into difficulty. The problems became visible to the delegates at the June 1927 convention, and Prenter was replaced by Alvanley Johnston Johnston scrapped the president and vice-president titles and headed the union as grand chief engineer. In 1934 Johnston was convicted of mishandling the funds of the failed Standard Trust Bank of Cleveland . The bank

765-591: The Order of Railway Conductors (1868), the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (1873) and the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen (1883). In the era after the founding of the Big Four, some sixteen other "brotherhoods" of railroad trades organized. Membership qualifications across trades shifted, and the alliances among the brotherhoods (and their chapters) are not always clear. Following a disastrous strike in July 1864 by employees of

816-579: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad , in which half of the strikers lost their jobs, the Brotherhood of the Footboard held a convention in Indianapolis on 17 August 1864 in which they changed their name to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and replaced Grand Chief Engineer Robinson with Charles Wilson. The first, radical, phase of the union was over. In 1873 the Pennsylvania Railroad ordered

867-434: The 126th Ohio General Assembly ; however, he stepped down from his leadership post when he entered the election for State Representative. In 2005, Hagan ran for mayor of Youngstown, hoping to replace outgoing mayor George McKelvey . Although initially favored to win, he was soundly defeated by independent candidate Jay Williams . A strong proponent of progressive policies, Hagan occasionally uses satire to attempt to make

918-545: The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers became owners of the Coal River Collieries, and Stone became chairman of the board of directors of the mine. A dispute arose with John L. Lewis , president of the United Mine Workers of America . Lewis claimed that Stone was closing mines and throwing miners out of work rather than pay the union scale. Stone refuted this, saying the unions had not renewed their agreement, but

969-538: The Combined War Labor Board . Towards the end of 1945 Johnston and the leaders of the other main railroad unions demanded pay increases and a 40-hour work week from the railroads, in line with other industries. Negotiations stalled in January 1946. Three of the unions were willing to suspend their demands, but Johnston and Whitney called a strike of the engineers and trainmen to start on 16 March 1946. The strike

1020-590: The House for ten years. When incumbent Joseph Vukovich was appointed to a judiciary position in 1997, Hagan was chosen to succeed him in the Ohio Senate. He was appointed to the State Senate on February 12, 1997, to represent the 33rd district in northeastern Ohio , centered on the city of Youngstown. During his time in there, he was chosen by the Senate Democratic caucus to serve as assistant minority whip in

1071-479: The Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Association. Founded in 1867, membership in the association was open to members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, their wives, widows, children and grandchildren, as well as "persons, their wives and eligible children who are represented under contracts for group insurance coverage between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and

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1122-568: The Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission. Hagan won a final term in 2012 unopposed, and was term-limited in 2014. He was succeeded by his wife Michele Lepore-Hagan . On April 17, 2013, Hagan announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat currently occupied by Republican Rob Portman . He cited Portman's vote against background checks as his motive for challenging the freshman senator. With

1173-602: The US. A year later it was renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ( B of LE ). The B of LE took its present name in 2004 when it became a division of the Rail Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). In the 19th century, the brotherhood generally took a conciliatory approach in dealing with railroad management, preferring to negotiate reasonable demands than to go on strike. The brotherhood

1224-564: The United Kingdom, a petition to the parliament in 1990 against ambulance service cuts attracted 4.5 million signatures. Today, petitions in Britain are often presented through the UK Parliament petitions website , the forerunner of which was set up in 2006. Such online petitions are a new form of a petition becoming commonplace in the 21st century. Change.org was founded in 2007 and became

1275-739: The army to end the strike. On 25 May the strikers accepted his terms. Johnston retired from the BLE in 1950. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was North America's oldest rail labor union when it merged with the Teamsters in 2004. The union sold its downtown Cleveland, Ohio , headquarters (the Standard Building ) in July 2014. The union purchased new headquarters in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, Ohio , in March 2015. The union said it would move its headquarters to Independence when its lease at its old property ended in summer 2016. In April 2024,

1326-678: The ballot as possible replacements for Davis. After that step, a vote on the recall was scheduled. Other types of petitions include those that sought to free Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment by the former apartheid government of South Africa . The petitions had no legal effect, but the signatures of millions of people on the petitions represented a moral force that may have helped free Mandela and end apartheid. Non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International often use petitions in an attempt to exert moral authority in support of various causes. Other nongovernmental subjects of petition drives include corporate personnel decisions. In

1377-467: The ballot. The 2003 California recall election, which culminated in the recall of Governor Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger , began when U.S. Representative Darrell Issa employed paid signature gatherers who obtained millions of signatures at a cost to Issa of millions of dollars. Once the requisite number of signatures was obtained on the recall petition, other petitions were circulated by would-be candidates who wanted to appear on

1428-401: The bill, which were ordered removed from the room by chairman Joe Uecker . Hagan has cited a considerable amount of secrecy and partisanship surrounding the legislation. He has called the bill simply a bust to unions . The bill ultimately passed the entire legislature. Building off his opposition to S.B. 5, Hagan introduced legislation with Michael Foley that would allow voters to recall

1479-404: The city of Youngstown being majorly pro-labor, Hagan had been against a bill that looks to limit collective bargaining for public employees. While it was virtually inevitable that the bill will pass into law, Hagan vowed to lead an effort to overthrow it via a referendum . A member of the committee hearing the bill, Hagan presented his colleagues with 65,000 petitions from individuals opposing

1530-572: The development of jurisprudence . The emergence of petitioning during the reign of Edward I of England (1272-1307) contributed to beginnings of legislative power for the Parliament of England . Petitions became a common form of protest and request to the British House of Commons in the 18th and 19th centuries; one million petitions were submitted to the UK's parliament between 1780 and 1918. The largest

1581-553: The early 1740s, petitions were separated from other affairs and recorded in a unique archive. Hundreds of thousands of petitions were archived in Istanbul between the 15th and 20th centuries. By the early 16th century, a large portion of day-to-day decisions were made in response to petitions. Negotiations between city leaders and the empire often used petitions; this practice continued into the Tanzimat period. These negotiations contributed to

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1632-477: The emperor . Petitions could be sent by anybody, from a scholar-official to a common farmer, although the petitions were more likely read to the emperor if they were persuasive enough to impeach questionable and corrupt local officials from office. When petitions arrived to the throne , multiple copies were made of the original and stored with the Office of Supervising Secretaries before the original written petition

1683-583: The governor, other statewide officeholders and members of the General Assembly . They stated that the measure was initiated by John Kasich 's low approval ratings and the outcry that occurred after S.B. 5. A staunch liberal , Hagan is against measures that would allow drilling for oil and natural gas in Ohio state parks . In debate on the bill, which went on to pass the Ohio House of Representatives , he went on to question whether Republicans who supported

1734-546: The graduation was to take place. Bishop Murry cited stance on abortion as the reasons for his decision. On April 21, 2022, Hagan stated on Twitter that he had a photo of Michael Rulli engaging in sexual relations with former President Donald Trump . On April 28, 2022, Hagan used disparaging comments on the social media platform Twitter , including referring to them as "right-wing troglodytes." His tweet went on to claim that Republicans "jerk off to Mein Kampf " On August 28, 2022,

1785-619: The measure were on drugs. Hagan has also sought to fight gasoline prices through legislation to create the Ohio Gasoline Price Oversight Commission. Along with Ron Gerberry, Hagan hopes to help fight rising gasoline prices. "This legislation is a direct response to the sacrifice our constituents are making at the pumps," Rep. Hagan said. On October 22, 2012, Hagan introduced a bill in the Ohio House that would prohibit any team playing in publicly financed stadiums or arenas from blacking out games. A violation would result in

1836-505: The mines were being worked on a cooperative plan. He said "We feel sure there are no better satisfied men employed anywhere than in the Coal River Collieries." Stone supported the radical Glenn E. Plumb plan for tripartite control of the railway industry by labor, capital and the public, and supported similar plans for other industries. In 1924 Stone was made president, with the grand chief engineer and two vice-presidents reporting to him. Stone died on 12 June 1925 of Bright's disease . At

1887-461: The railroad industry." Local units of the group were called branches and was governed by a quadrennial national convention. The association was headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and had a membership of 30,000 in 1968 and 20,000 in 1979. Edward Hall serves as the national president of the BLET. Citations Sources Petitions A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to

1938-408: The sign. On September 15, 2022, Senator Rulli alleged that Hagan had entered his family's grocery store, Rulli Brothers, and harassed customers on September 12. Hagan denied these allegations, stating that the man in the security camera footage was not him and accused Rulli of "endangering [his] family" and "inciting violence" against him. On September 30, Hagan filed a cease-and-desist order to remove

1989-460: The team repaying its public funding. In 2010, Hagan was assaulted at the Lemon Grove, a bar located in Youngstown, Ohio. He was punched in the face after a verbal altercation with a fellow customer, and was treated with several stitches at a local hospital after regaining consciousness. On January 20, 2011 it was reported that Hagan had referred to someone during an online debate on Facebook as

2040-444: The time of Stone's death the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had majority interests in enterprises with assets of approximately $ 150,000,000. Stone was succeeded by William B. Prenter . Around this time it was found that the union's finances were in much poorer shape than had been thought, and the executives decided to undertake risky projects in an attempt to recoup the losses before the problem became public, including developing

2091-563: The union jumped into a public fight at Norfolk Southern Railway over whether to replace the company's leadership. Earlier in the year, some investors proposed firing Norfolk's CEO Alan Shaw and putting in seven new people on the board of directors. The BLET Teamsters publicly came out in support of the plan, saying that "a change at the top is needed" after following the public comments about Shaw and his COO, John Orr. The Teamsters union represents roughly half of Norfolk Southern's unionized employees. The BLE had an insurance association, called

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2142-464: The union until 1950. In 1946 negotiations with the government of Harry S. Truman broke down and the union went on strike for two days, causing nationwide havoc, before coming to an agreement on hours and wages. In 2004 the brotherhood merged with the Teamsters. An early attempt to form a union for locomotive engineers was made on 6–9 November 1855 at a meeting in Baltimore at which it was agreed to form

2193-575: The union. Youngson was on his deathbed, and died on 31 July 1903. Before dying, Youngson recommended Warren Stanford Stone as his successor, a man who would have great influence in labor politics. Stone headed the union until 1924. Stone believed that if a worker "wants to join a union, all right, but it is contrary to the principles of free government and the Constitution of the United States ;... to make him join." Stone and other members of

2244-450: The video from social media and provided evidence that he was at home during the alleged incident. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen ( BLET ) is a labor union founded in Marshall, Michigan , on 8 May 1863 as the Brotherhood of the Footboard . It was the first permanent trade organization for railroad workers in

2295-495: The vote again Republican Timothy Gordon. Facing primary opposition for a third term in 2010, Hagan defeated Don Hanni with 70.59% of the vote for the nomination. He won the general election with 81.23% of the vote over Republican Daniel Thimons. For the 129th General Assembly, Hagan served on the committees of Commerce and Labor; Health and Aging; and Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security. He also served on

2346-619: Was able to prevent wages from falling further through effective negotiation, and the union became more powerful, and was held in good esteem by the union members and the railroad managers. After 1877, the BLE was considered less militant than some other brotherhoods, as well as the Knights of Labor and the American Railway Union . Arthur died unexpectedly on 17 July 1903, and the Grand Assistant Chief A.B. Youngson became head of

2397-448: Was delayed when President Truman set up a board to hear the grievances and make recommendations. After lengthy negotiations, union members voted to go on strike on 23 May 1946. The strike stranded travelers, prevented movement of perishable goods and caused concern that many people in war-devastated Europe would starve if grain shipments were delayed. Truman broadcast an appeal to the strikers to return to work, and threatened to call out

2448-405: Was partly owned by the BLE and he was the chairman. Johnston's conviction was overturned on appeal on the grounds that he was not aware of what was being done. In 1943, during World War II (1939-1945), the government seized the railroads. Johnston and Alexander F. Whitney , head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen , were made labor consultants. Johnston also represented the railroad union of

2499-477: Was seen as elitist by other railway unions, and sometimes came into conflict during strikes. However, it was respected by its members. By 1925 it had accumulated large investments to support member benefits and pensions. That year it was found that some of these investments were troubled. The executives launched into risky projects in an attempt to recoup their losses, which failed, forcing a change in leadership. The new grand chief engineer, Alvanley Johnston , steered

2550-548: Was sent to the emperor. Inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire , as individuals and as groups, had the right to petition local representatives of the empire or to petition the sultan directly. In the capital city of Istanbul , a bureau influenced by the one that had existed in Byzantine Constantinople tracked and archived all petitions along with any annotations and administrative actions related to them. Beginning in

2601-642: Was the Great/People's Charter, or petition of the Chartists . The Petition Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of the people "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The right to petition has been held to include the right to file lawsuits against the government. Petitions are commonly used in the U.S. to qualify candidates for public office to appear on

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