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NHLabor

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Sun Jan 20, 2013, 11:59 AM Jan 2013

NH Senate President Writes Legislation To End Collective Bargaining

After enduring two full years of constant attacks on the collective bargaining process, we thought that after the elections we would be safe. We were wrong!

Senate President Peter Bragdon, who is a strong supporter of Right To Work legislation, has introduced a bill that would effectively end collective bargaining for public employees, without actually saying it.

The bill, Senate Bill 37, is a very sneaky and underhand way of removing items from the collective bargaining process to effectively destroy it. (Bold are proposed changes)


The phrase “managerial policy within the exclusive prerogative of the public employer’ shall be construed to include but shall not be limited to the functions, programs, and methods of the public employer, including the use of technology, the public employer’s organizational structure, [and] the selection, direction and number of its personnel, and the right to determine standards for evaluation, compensation, selection, layoff and retention, discipline, assignment and transfer, and other traditionally accepted managerial rights, so as to continue public control of governmental functions.


There is much more. Read the rest of the story on the NH Labor News

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NH Senate President Writes Legislation To End Collective Bargaining (Original Post) NHLabor Jan 2013 OP
It's ok the nutjobs lost the house and Maggie would veto that crap anyway. Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #1
 

Warren Stupidity

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1. It's ok the nutjobs lost the house and Maggie would veto that crap anyway.
Sun Jan 20, 2013, 01:31 PM
Jan 2013

They had their day in the sun. The remaining not insane republicans in the senate will work with the democratic majority in the house. We will go back to being a normal center right state, instead of a whack job experiment in liberloonacy.

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