right to work lead to lower wages for our employees

Mark! You missed the biggest reason RTW is back.... Ask O'Brien about campaign financing and special deals he's made.

We already had this article.

Right to mooch laws are wrong for NH. If you get a benefit from something, you should pay for it. In right to mooch states, workers benefit from the collective bargaining power of unions, and don't have to contribute.
If you get the raises, pensions, health benefits, workplace safety, 40 hour week, overtime pay and vacation days that unions negotiate for on your behalf, you should support the union.
To do otherwise is to expect something for nothing, to ask for a handout, to call for the redistribution of wealth.

If non-union members benefit from labor contracts negotiated by unions, they should have to pay those unions labor dues, whether or not they actually go to meetings or want to be listed as a member of the union.

Yo get what pay for in the USA, no free rides allowed.

Right-to-Work ("Freedom to Work") is simply about giving individual workers the "Freedom" to decide whether to join a union and pay sues.
Add to that the economic benefits, and it is an easy decision ...
It takes courage to stand up to the union bosses, and some legislators have that courage ... And some don't !

Sponsor the Right-to-Work legislation? No wonder your the 'former House Speaker'

Look at every "right to work" state, see where the average income of their population falls compared to the national average. While the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is shrinking, it's not shrinking fast enough for O'brien and the NH republican party. Which probably explains the election results of last month...

O'Brien and his cohorts just don't get it! If this as well other initiatives were so popular he would not be sit around this term. Maybe he should get with rep Bettencourt and start a small business they can manage on minimum wage. Raising pigs sounds like a winner with all the pork he wants to find.

Mark! You missed the biggest reason RTW is back.... Ask O'Brien about campaign financing and special deals he's made.

If Wisconsin and Michigan have employee freedom from slavery to unions, why not New Hampshire?

Tim. See above

O'Brien and his right wing crazies, as well as Free State lunatics will turn this state bright blue with their insistence on inflicting their views on our great state. Their conservative, no government doctrines are offensive on their own, and doubly so because of their continued use of deceptive or shove it down your throat politics. Every state in the country that has the ridiculously named "right to work" has lower wages and unsafe work conditions. These same idiots want to defund our schools, put guns into every person's hands in the country, and block access to public transportation.

NH has the strongest economy so why do we want to copy the bottom 27 economies? Race to the bottom? No thank you.

When the Dems can't win an argument on the merits they have to resort to personal attacks, nothing new here. Union jobs make up a small overall percentage of jobs in NH. We have little to no industrial production here. The southern half of the state commutes to work in MA and our kids are leaving for better jobs elswhere. Our largest employer is BAE and then what? We have a great intelligent workforce but major companies won't consider NH because of our position on right to work. Right to work doesn't effect collective bargaining rights. It leaves the decision to pay dues up to the workers. Give the people the freedom to make their life decisions!

Forced unionism is nothing more than a violation of your first amendment rights. The fact that the unions paid off enough politicians to force you to pay dues or lose your job, doesn't make it right. Unions fear right to work because they know that unless they can threaten a hard worker with loss of job for not paying dues, they will not join. This does not force people to join a union, or say you can't have one, it simply says it should be your freedom of choice to belong or not. It can't get any more American than that.

I realy hope all you folks opposed to right to work drive vehicles manufactured by the big 3. Saying your opposed to right to work and that you support unions is great if thats how you feel. Saying it and then buying a vehicle made in a non union shop and built in a righ to work state is the ultimate hypocrosy.

People like their forty-hour work weeks. They like their employer provided health care. They like paid vacations. They like working environments without poisons. They like income and job protection as they get older. Yet, so many of those who bask in the light of these accomplishments demonize the very unions that made them all possible. Left to the O'Briens of the world, we would still be in the dark ages of Calvin Coolidge. He and his anti-labor cohorts live in a fantasy land that never existed. It is the land of laissez-fairy tales. It is the land of RTW.

I have to hand it to you progressive liberals that you sink the lowest of the barrel and you start talking trash BECAUSE you don't know any better. Why can't you get your mouths out of the gutter and have a talk on facts alone. As it stands, states that have had republican governors have seen a steady growth in their economy and a lower unemployment rate which might have something to do with right to work states.

Right to Work is actually saving union members from the corruption and deception within their own unions. Falling off the fiscal cliff is a "requirement" of all union members, according to the union, and, re-distribution of wealth is the plan. Sure, union pay now is good, because the unions need you to have something to complain about when THEY steal your pensions from the Cayman islands, of which no union member has access to. Just the big bosses. I did my homework about where union member money is invested, and the Cayman's are only one off-shore account. They need union members good and ticked off when they tell you there is no money so you can blame everyone else except them. The more they give now, the more pissed off you will be when it's all taken away. Common Sense tells you to protect yourself, but since when has common sense played any part in the union?

I can't figure out if people are against RTW or just hate Bill O'Brien.

The solution to this is simple: how about if you don't want to join a union in a unionized workplace, just don't take the job! It's not like it's a big secret until after you're there a few months. A little personal responsibility is in order here. The job at the salary and benefit level you want is there because a union fought for it. Why should the workplace conform to you?

Yet another piece of propaganda by leftie Marc devoid of any facts to cloud the agenda. The mindless follow along to demagogue anyone who doesn't exhibit group think. Progressives love to use the power of the state to enforce their ideology.

Merry Christmas to all,and best wishes for the New Year

I am always amazed at the complete lack of facts in the comment stream here.

1 The unions did not nor would they ever ask for any RIGHT TO WORK for less legislation.
2 They would never ask for a reduction in exclusive bargaining.
3 Nobody is forced to join a union, you are required to pay for their representative services only.
4 Unions are not sending their money to the cayman islands to avoid taxes
5 Right To Work does not increase jobs this is why the RTW debate has shifted from jobs to a FREEDOM (which is a crock, refer to # 3)
6 Right to work laws are created to weaken collective bargaining and weaken the union (hopefully break it). RTW states pay less, have less healthcare, higher poverty, higher child mortality, higher dependence on safety net programs like welfare and food stamps.

Right to Work for less laws are bad for any state, they are going to help new hampshire's economy (which is one of the strongest in the US) it is an attempt for the ideological right to destroy the only protector of the middle class left.

When unions were more prevalent, wages were higher and the income inequality was minimal unlike today.

Right to work for less. O'Brien must be getting a kick back from ALEC for pushing for this again and again. Go away, NH doesn't need it!

"States That Bar Mandatory Union Dues Tend Toward More Jobs but Lower Wages"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324296604578179603136860138.html

Ironic how the term "Union" is used.
""During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the 20 free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the Confederacy. The Union has often been referred to as "the North", both then and now.""

""A trade union (British English), labour union (Canadian English) or labor union (American English) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.
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Originating in Europe, trades unions became popular in many countries during the Industrial Revolution, when the lack of skill necessary to perform most jobs shifted employment bargaining power almost completely to the employers' side, causing many workers to be mistreated and underpaid.""

Unions "protect the middle class"? Like all those middle class workers at Hostess that the union destroyed? Like all those middle class workers at Chrysler and Government Motors that *would* have been destroyed the companies except the taxpayers were forced to bail them out as a payoff by Obama? Right to work means if you want to join a union, you can. If you DON'T want to join a union, you don't have to. All the supposed "benefits" that non-union workers are "enjoying"? Well then fine; if the union is so great, and those benefits are so great, then the workers will all join voluntarily. But the unions can't allow freedom, because they know they can't compete unless workers are *forced* to give them "protection money.* Screw that.

Jan it makes no sense to argue with anyone that thinks labor take the biggest piece of the pie.
"""Mulally earned $68,247,702 in 2011, most of which can be attributed to more than $58 million in stock award gains. Mulally's total compensation in 2011 more than tripled what he made in 2010, when he ranked No. 3. That year, his stock award gains accounted for only about $9.3 million of his approximately $20.8 million total compensation.
Mulally is reaping the benefits of Ford's continuing recovery,"""

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20120604/OEM02/306049986#ixzz2GCqUaho5

http://www.autonews.com/article/20120604/OEM02/306049986/1179

As time goes on we will find that the CEO's took the cash instead of maintaining the company. Drain the cash and sell the remains, so goes corporate life. Let the peasants fight over the crumbs.

"But the first thing you hear, you believe forever. Even when handed the truth..."

Attacking the poster again...

if the unions have something to offer anyone in a rtw state they are free to join. but having been a member( not by choice) of the two largest unions in this country you would be hard pressed to convince me of that. how many of the top companies to work for are union?.

NO ......
THIS POTENTIAL STATE LAW IS SLAVE LABOR.
A REPUBLICAN IDEA.

by the way one of the largest union locals pension fund in the country that they managed is only 20% funded i dare you to check out the rest.