Per SEIU Local 1984:
The Finance Committee of the NH House of Representatives just voted to repeal collective bargaining arrangements during a committee discussion on an unrelated bill, HB 2 dealing with the state budget.
This isn't exactly a surprise, by any stretch. We've seen this sort of thing already.
This happened late at night, with no public warning and no public testimony whatsoever.
Now-- this is just one committee-- there is no guarantee that the NH House as a whole will support this bill and there's good opportunity to whittle away support at multiple levels (house, senate, veto), but that's only going to happen if New Hampshire voters make it happen, and I'm in the dark about a lot of the local districts in NH. So this is a request for help on multiple levels: write your legislators in support of labor, but also if you know about specific districts or legislators, please post what info you have. If you have a sense of where Governor Lynch is on this, please talk about this, too.
I'm going into this blind. It's hard enough for me to keep up with the craziness that is local Vermont politics so figuring out New Hampshire may send me off the bend.
Updated by Julie Waters at Thu Mar 24, 2011 at 08:20 AM EDT
There's a rally scheduled this afternoon in Concord (h/t Jim Wilson:
this afternoon from 1:30 - 4:30pm EDT at the Finance Committee meeting in LOB 210-211.