NH Senate President Writes Legislation To End Collective Bargaining

[Omaha Steve]

NH Senate President Writes Legislation To End Collective Bargaining

By Matt Murray | January 20, 2013 | Labor, Legislation, NH Senate, Union

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.

FULL story at link.

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Matt Murray is the creator and an author on the NH Labor News. He is a union member and advocate for labor. He also works with other unions and members to help spread our message.

[JimDandy]

1. Kick to expose the sneakiness of it. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

2. As I responded in an earlier post on this topic, not a problem.

We swept the tealoons out of the lower chamber in November, cut their majority in the senate, and elected a pro union democratic governor. This is dead ender idiocy from the remnants of the 2010 gang of loons.

[Teamster Jeff]

3. “managerial policy within the exclusive prerogative of the public employer’

"Management Rights" wording in labor contracts should be a huge red flag. It is put in to overrule other clauses of benefit to the members. Looks like they tried something similar here.

[patrice]

4. Labor is right in the nexus of EVERYTHING that is happening, economically, environmentally, in every

way. That's why anyone who can is coming after Labor, because unions will be the key that unlocks Social Darwinism at the state level or nationally, or keeps it in its cage.