Month: January 2017

NH Students Deserve a Commissioner of Education Who Is QUALIFIED & SUPPORTS Public Education

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Frank Edelblut is a full-throated proponent of school choice, which would mean taking money and jobs away from public schools and sending them to charter and private schools. Simply put – it’s outsourcing! 
 
He is totally unqualified for the job of leading the NH’s public school system, as he has never worked in one, sent his children to one or even served on a school board! Edelblut also supports Right-to-Work.
 
 
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Senator Lou D’Allesandro Slams “Right-to-Work” Supporters For Not Listening To Concerned Citizens

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Senator Lou D’Allesandro Slams “Right-to-Work” Supporters 
For Not Listening To Concerned Citizens
 
 
 

Senator Lou D’Allesandro has always stood with New Hampshire working families. His words on the Senate floor regarding the Senate Commerce Committee’s decision to immediately vote to pass SB11-FN (so-called “Right-to-Work”) out of committee before reading or researching any of the submitted testimony show that he understands the importance of unions to a prosperous middle class in the Granite State. Sadly a majority of his fellow Senators don’t care about good wages and benefits for the working class and passed the bill 12-11. 

The New Hampshire AFL-CIO would like to thank those Senators who voted to defeat the fraudulently-labeled “Right-to-Work” bill in the Senate.

We will need your assistance, voice, and leadership to defeat this in the House of Representatives.

 

For more information on the fraudulently labeled “Right-to-Work” legislation, CLICK HERE

 

Find your State Representative and contact them to let them know that

 

so-called “Right-to-Work” is STILL wrong for New Hampshire working families

 

 

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Joint Statement of the NH Labor Leaders Following the Senate Passage of So-called “Right-to-Work” Legislation

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PRESS RELEASE

Contact:          Alan Raff
                        araff@nhaflcio.org
                        (603) 714-0258

 

January 19, 2017
 
Joint Statement of the leaders of New Hampshire AFL-CIO and its affiliates,
the National Education Association of New Hampshire, the State Employees Association,
the New Hampshire Carpenters, and the New Hampshire Teamsters 
following the Senate passage of so-called “Right-to-Work” legislation

Concord – “Today the New Hampshire Senate passed the so-called “Right-to-Work” bill.  This bill is not about improving New Hampshire’s economy or increasing the freedoms of any worker in the Granite State. Instead it is an attack on all working families by special interests seeking to lower wages for everyone and undermine worker protections. This bill is designed to do one thing and one thing only:  limit employees’ ability to advocate on behalf of what’s best for their families and communities. 
This bill will silence the teachers who advocate on behalf of smaller class sizes for our children, the transportation employees who negotiate for the equipment they need to keep the roads clear after a blizzard and the police and firefighters who negotiate for the staffing levels they need to keep us safe. It would take away the voices of tradespeople like ironworkers, pipe-fitters and line workers who negotiate the safety standards that keep entire industries safe.
When working people aren’t able to have a voice in what’s best for our communities, we all lose.
New Hampshire deserves real solutions to real problems, not attempts to limit working people’s voice in their communities.  The legislature was elected to advocate for the best interests of all New Hampshire working families, and we urge them to remember that. As the bill moves to the House we’ll continue to do what we’ve always done: Stand with working families across the state to create a New Hampshire that works for everyone.”

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