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March 10, 2009 - 02:21 pm
NEWS FEED: New Hampshire Presidential Watch

Group says EFCA would benefit Granite State

By lawsonbri@gmail.com (Cosmo)

A New Hampshire health care group says that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would help the state’s economy and workers.

“The bill could provide a major boost to the economy by helping workers share in the prosperity that they help create,” the group NH for Healthcare wrote in a press release. “A report released last month from the Center for American Progress showed that if even 5% more of New Hampshire’s workers joined unions, $82 million would be pumped into the state’s economy each year.”

According to the group, The Employee Free Choice Act “restores the option of ‘majority sign-up,’ in addition to elections, to ensure that workers, not employers decide how to form a union.

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Mon, 09/15/2008 - 14:57

AFL-CIO endorses legislative candidates

By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter

This past weekend, the New Hampshire AFL-CIO endorsed a slate of legislative candidates at its annual convention.

The union endorsed all 24 Democratic state Senate candidates and Gov. John Lynch (D-Hopkinton). They also endorsed three of the four Democratic candidates running for the Executive Council and a slew of candidates for state representative. The most prominent Republican the union endorsed was Executive Councilor Ray Burton (R-Bath).

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Thu, 08/14/2008 - 14:48

Groups give Sununu a cake to celebrate Social Security

By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=2986|title=Social Security cake|desc=Photo credit: PolitickerNH.com|link=none|align=left|width=230|height=173]MANCHESTER-- A coalition of organizations gave U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R-Waterville Valley) a birthday cake. The cake though was not for Sununu's birthday. It was to celebrate the beginning of Social Security.

The New Hampshire Alliance for Retired Americans and members of the New Hampshire AFL-CIO stood outside Sununu's senate office to argue that Sununu's voting record on Social Security has been a "disgrace."

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