From The NH LABOR NEWS The NH House session has officially begun. This is where the fun begins. One of the bills that I caught wind of at the end of last year is a proposed Minimum Wage change for New Hampshire. HB 127 I. Adds a state minimum hourly wage. II. Requires the commissioner [...]
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The Fight Over A New NH Minimum Wage Is About To Begin
By Matt Murray on January 10, 2013 in
Tags: legislation, minimum wage, New Hampshire Labor News, wages, workers
Caution: Destruction Zone
The Republican wrecking crew has almost finished. The dust is starting to settle in the New Hampshire legislature so we can just begin to see just how much damage the GOP has done to the state during the last legislative session. NH Minimum Wage Abolished. (HB 133). In his veto message, Democratic governor Lynch noted, [...]
What if the federal minimum wage disappears?
Now that NH no longer sets its own minimum wage, what would happen if the federal minimum wage law were repealed? We’ve all been upset that we no longer can raise our wage above the federal limit, but imagine if the law were repealed? What do you think would happen to low wage workers? And [...]
Lynch Vetoes Elimination of State Minimum Wage
HB 133 repeals the New Hampshire minimum wage law, which has been on the books since 1949. One line that the dishonest GOP spin doctors are using is, “A state minimum wage creates the possibility of having a state standard higher than the federal minimum wage, and that would kill jobs.” This is dishonest because [...]
Minimum Wage Bill Is Spotlighted by House Democrats
HB 560 is not just my bill; in fact all I did was cosponsor it. Mike Brunelle was the prime sponsor. It would raise the basic minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.00 an hour. Although the bill didn’t come out and explicitly say so, it would also raise the minimum wage for tipped workers to [...]
Why I’m working my #%@! off for Governor Lynch (and you should too!)
By Rep. David Pierce on October 16, 2010 in
Tags: Green jobs, Johnny Stephen, Lynch, majority, Marriage, minimum wage
Some up in my neck of the woods in the Upper Valley say Governor Lynch is not their favorite Democrat. They say he’s not liberal enough. They complain he works across the aisle too much. That’s probably true for a lot of people here in Hanover, where Obama won 82% of the vote in 2008 [...]
GOT MINIMUM WAGE? Thank Democrats
Americans are a generous people. That’s why all around the nation they support laws that level the playing field when it comes to fair wages. New Hampshire’s current minimum wage stands at $7.25 per hour, the same as the federal minimum wage.Alaskan TP candidate for Senate, Joe Miller, wants to abolish the federal standard. [...]
Senator John E. Sununu (R-Cloud-Cuckoo-Land)
The Smartest Right-Wing Ideologue in the Senate, John E. Sununu (R-Cloud-Cuckoo-Land), in 2005, on helping to kill a minimum wage increase: “I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows,” said New Hampshire Republican John Sununu, “When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That [...]
John E. and Johnny, Together Again
Chris Bowers has made a delightful discovery about Johnny McMaverick, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. The same discovery, it seems, that elwood made over a year ago about our own John E. Sununu. What do Johnny and John E. (and Judd Gregg, for that matter) share in common? Both have an abiding love for radical [...]
Guerrilla Vlogger: Edwards in Portsmouth, NH.
By mbair on September 4, 2007 in
Tags: 2008 Elections, CAFE, campaign finance reform, Democrats, Elizabeth Edwards, Energy, Global Warming, Health Care, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, John Edwards, Labor, minimum wage, new hampshire, New Orleans, President, primaries, social security, unions, universal health care
cross-posted at dailykos At the end of a long and winding road through the state the Edwards family wrapped up their bus tour with a Town Hall event on the banks of the river at lovely Prescott Park in downtown Portsmouth, NH which was well attended by more than a thousand people. Edwards takes questions [...]
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