Union Leader newspaper reports:
Right-to-work odds improve

Giving an overview of the upcoming legislative session for the New Hampshire Union Leader, Kevin Landrigan reports:

Right-to-work odds improve

Right-to-work will receive a renewed push this session. A New Hampshire Union Leader report found that 11 interconnected political action committees gave nearly $100,000 to 10 GOP Senate hopefuls, eight of whom won.

Several times in the past decade, the House has narrowly killed this bid to make it against the law to require any employee to pay dues or join a union to keep a job.

This will be the first debate since the landmark Supreme Court decision know as Janus, which struck down union financial mandates in the public sector.

Lawmakers gave Morse and Packard broad powers to combine bills and public hearings to heighten efficiency in a year when much of the activity could be remote.

But D’Allesandro and Bradley agreed there remains a tense wariness about what legislating, 2021-style, will be like as New Hampshire residents wait for wide access to the vaccine.“I think the House is going to be crazy with all their factions in both parties. If anything happens of a positive nature, I think it will happen in the Senate,” D’Allesandro summed up.

“But if you are thinking clearly, you have to be very concerned about the unknown.”

Read more at the New Hampshire Union Leader:

Taxes, COVID-19, education, voting to dominate 2021 Legislature