Susan has a run down of the proceedings of the RTW Bill (HB 32) as it came before House Labor, Industrial, and Rehabilitative Services Committee yesterday (1/30/13) Obie tells us that NH will either be left behind in a Northeast that is a forced union part of the country, or join and enjoy the benefits [...]
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Gill: RTW is Wrong for NH
I have a letter to the editor in today’s Concord Monitor, “Right-to-Work is Wrong for NH” I’m running against Free Stater Mark Warden in Hillsborough County’s Floterial district 39, covering Deering, Goffstown and Weare. On September 10, 2012 on the Girard at Large radio program, after receiving Bill O’Brien’s endorsement, Mr. Warden stated that passing [...]
House Passes Bill Limiting State Workers’ Unions Bill
House Passes Bill Limiting State Workers’ UnionsBill Is More Limited Version Of Vetoed Right-To-Work Measure CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s House has voted to bar the unions representing state workers from collecting fees from non-union members to cover bargaining and other costs. How is this going to create jobs? The House voted 212-128 Thursday to [...]
O’Brien’s Retribution
From The Lobby: Four members of House Speaker William O’Brien’s extended leadership team will be sacked for their opposition to Right-to-Work legislation, TheLobbyNh.com has learned. House Fish and Game Commission Chairman Gary Hopper, R-Weare, has already turned in his letter of resignation from running the panel. DJ is the hit man for the other three, [...]
There is a Storm is Gathering…
Here are the radio Ads running across the state curiously well timed in advance of today’s session at the statehouse. @NHAFLCIO will be tweeting live with the #standupNH and #nhunion hashtags. #stopRtW seems to be another tag in use. AFPR-02+Americans For Prosperity+Not Free 11-21-11+S by mhoefer AFPR-02+Americans For Prosperity+Unfair 11-22-11+S by mhoefer NHAC+NH Advantage Coalition+Protect [...]
RTW Override Vote Pending?
Really a placeholder diary here, hoping others will chime in with what they are hearing and how we can help sustain the Governors veto. Ads the past two mornings on WKBK (SW NH) have read out the names of State Representatives that are blocking the passage RTW work. The names are read over very ominous/scary [...]
The party of State’s Rights
Remember last week when the GOP in NH was complaining about our State’s Rights being violated when the Federal Government contracted directly with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Where was their mock outrage yesterday when a sitting US Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, threatened to get involved in the RTW veto override? So the Federal Government [...]
Stormy, But Some Sunshine
By Gary Patton on September 26, 2011 in
Tags: HB 474, Lynch vetoes, RGGI, RTW, SB 129, SB 154, SB 57, SB 88
Ominous, thick, low-hanging clouds produced by Republican supermajorities in the state legislature created two damaging lightning strikes. Then, surprisingly, two shafts of sunlight broke through the GOP overcast. The legislature is currently engaged in a series of override votes in response to vetoes of legislation by Democratic governor John Lynch. If at least two-thirds of [...]
Speaker O’Brien’s holds Funeral Attendees Hostage
O’Brien’s “Right to Work” (for Less) Obsession Sinks to New Low Does the funeral of a beloved Republican Governor give Speaker Bill O’Brien the opportunity he has been waiting for? Since Governor Lynch vetoed O’Brien’s plan (HB474) for NH to become the only eastern state north of the Mason-Dixon Line to strip workers rights to [...]
RTW is good for the GOP, says O’Brien
The New Hampshire Business Review’s Flotsam and Jetsam column has an interesting quote from the Speakah at a meeting of the Belknap County Republicans: The reason to back RTW, according to O’Brien: The bill “is good for our party.” He then claimed that 10 of the 12 largest contributors to Democrats in the 2010 election [...]