Protesters Erupt As New Hampshire GOPers Move Anti-Union Bill That Goes Farther Than Walker's

[meegbear]

Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com

Late on Tuesday evening, Republicans on a House panel in New Hampshire voted to advance legislation that resembles Scott Walker's law in Wisconsin ending collective bargaining rights for public sector unions. It's actually farther reaching.

Under the terms of this plan, public sector workers in the state would become "at will" employees if and when their contracts expire.

That eliminates all the leverage state employees have in negotiation with their employers, and could ultimately end up busting the unions entirely.

A labor fight has been brewing in New Hampshire, where Republicans have huge House and Senate majorities, for weeks. But this was the first legislative step toward actually undermining unions -- and the skewed 18-7 vote suggests it could ultimately land on the Democratic governor's desk, in some form.


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The vote came down as protesters jeered and yelled at committee Republicans who had them evicted from the committee room. You can watch that scene unfold here.

[Maine-ah]

1. KnR

and a WTF, New Hampshire?

JFC, this shit is like a fucking virus.

[PatSeg]

11. Oh, I don't think it was a spontaneous "outbreak"

of anti-unionitus. It appears to be a well planned operation - Shock and Awe perhaps? I also think conservative leaders underestimated the public's reaction, believing that most people were politically apathetic. Even with all the protests, they probably believe that working people will burn out and just go back to their lives.

[Maine-ah]

12. they just have us by the "balls"

no jobs out there, who can afford to take the time away from a job to protest something when you live in an "at will" employment state. Most people have been politically apathetic. I think they've woken a sleeping monster though.

[russspeakeasy]

13. I hope they are awake, but this far from election, they will be napping again.

[PatSeg]

16. Yeah, they probably thought

this was the best time to strike, shortly after an election and at a time as you said, when many cannot afford to take time off work to protest. They are so overly confident, they've just barely disguised what their true objections are. Historically, when the "sleeping monster" awakes, it doesn't back down. Hopefully that will be true this time.

[Blue Owl]

2. Republicans: Public Servants?

I don't fucking think so.

[geomon666]

3. These teabaggers are gonna cause a civil war one day.

There's only so much people can take before they've had enough of the fucking boot heel on their necks.

[atreides1]

4. This is what the voters got

May not have been what they wanted...but they're getting it anyway!!!

To review, the people are constantly told by the Republican Party...that it's the Democrats who are trying to take away there freedoms...and now we have Republican controlled state legislatures doing exactly what they've accused the Democrats of taking away the freedom of collective bargaining...and this is just the beginning, unless the American Fascist Party is removed from power before it succeeds in destroying the Republic...and the brain dead voters can't see past the Black man in the White House.

Let's not forget those wonderful voters who stayed home last year, who have the patience of a meth addict looking for their next fix...because the president didn't wave his magic surfboard and make everything better.

[MadMaddie]

21. damn straight

Not voting has consequences...and people can excuse it away anyway they want but this is the result.

[Citizen Worker]

5. This is what happens when we failed to respond with a general strike during the Wisconsin attack on

Unions. The oligarchy will simply shut protesters out. Failure to respond to the attacks in kind serves to embolden the oligarchy to make ever more draconian attacks the norm. Strike!

[tcaudilllg]

15. Yeah I agree. It's time for a strike.

[Critters2]

18. +1 nt

[louslobbs]

6. It has become painfully obvious, that the Repuclicons and their operatives are a Virus Dicktatorship

they want to rule not govern and we need a vaccine rather quickly to stop the spread. There are other viruses at work as well and a cancer called Koch Klan Kancer. This is serious stuff the Republicons are trying to pull off in their war against their own people, We the People. It's sick, and they seem to be getting sicker everyday with one after another, outrageous and harmful policies, they're moving faster and faster to take down the middle class and impose their world view on the majority of us. They do not have the majority on their side, but they have the corporations, Chamber of Republicon Commerce, Koch the Nazi/Stalin/Bircher corp and its followers and the Supreme Court. What more do you need? The only other thing they would need to finally get it all, would be for them to find a way to buy our military and that would of course cause this country to implode.
Lou

[Plucketeer]

7. O- PEE-ONS.....

Your complacency is stealing what little you have left!

[LynneSin]

8. I'm guessing the republicans can do what they want but the Dem Governor will shoot it down

thank goodness

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. The 18-7 vote suggests an override is possible. nt

[Plucketeer]

9. I sure hope I'll soon need the phone #

of a pizza place in Concord that'll deliver pies to the tens of thousands of protesters.

[No Elephants]

19. Make sure you don't ask Bachman for it. She just might give you one with a 978 area code,

U.S. geography whiz that she is.

[99th_Monkey]

10. Gov. needs to get that VETO pen poised for action. ~nt

[russspeakeasy]

14. Please tell Mr. Obama that some of his base is still concerned

about workers rights. Need some shoes, Sir?

[whathappened]

17. rightys

what they can't get in there thick skulls is , when they bust the unions and wages go down hill , the pukes are gonna find out fast , the unions is what held there wages up , the joke will be on all them tea baggers when there wages tank , after fighting hard for there rich unknown friends , them same employers will be chopping there money tree down , they all will be working for walmart wages

[MadMaddie]

20. SHOCK DOCTRINE at work!

[slay]

22. You got that right!