The workforce and the labor policy there, like Michigan, is stuck in a pre-Rust Belt, Golden Age of Unions mindset. Michigan is aggressively trying to recruit industry, but between the winter weather, shitty schools, and union issues, damned if I can see why anyone would choose to locate there instead of someplace with a less entitlement-driven workforce and more congenial environment. Those are things southern Ohio could actually offer, but for the State government's outlook on labor policy being essentially derived from the northern half of the state.