NH House - Right to Work Public Hearing will be Streamed Live Online

CONCORD – The House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitation Services Committee Thursday will hear House Bill 1677, relative to choice as to whether to join a labor union. The bill also would eliminate the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. The hearing will be held in Representatives Hall at the State House in Concord and will be streamed live online beginning at 1:30pm on the New Hampshire House of Representatives website, which can be found here: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/default.htm

Jackie Cilley to make announcement on Governor's Race

Next Tuesday, former New Hampshire senator and Berlin native Jackie Cilley will announce her candidacy for governor at the YWCA in downtown Manchester.

(Manchester – February 3^rd, 2012)   Sen. Cilley is a daughter of millworkers and the first member of her family to attend college. To announce her candidacy for governor Cilley chose the YWCA, which once served as a hostel for young women who came down to work in the mills, to reflect her commitment to New Hampshire's working class and the opportunities those jobs represented for families to move into the middle class.

Cilley earned a reputation as a fierce advocate for the rights of working men and women while in the General Court. She will focus her campaign on securing for future generations the opportunities that made the success of this generation of New Hampshire's families possible.

Jackie Cilley, who served in both New Hampshire's House and Senate representing Barrington, built a successful small business while teaching hundreds of New Hampshire students over her 20 years as a highly respected business professor with UNH's Whittemore School for Business and Economics. A Berlin native, Sen. Cilley earned a BA from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from the Whittemore School.

Date: Tuesday, February 7^th, 2012

Time: 10:00am

Location: YWCA New Hampshire

72 Concord Street, Manchester, NH 03101

CEI Today: Kagan & Obamacare, labor union politics, the EPA job killer & more

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Media Contacts: Christine Hall 202.331.2258 Nicole Ciandella 202.331.2773 CEI Experts by Issue Advancing Capitalism Constitutional and Legal Issues Energy and Environment Finance and Entrepreneurship Health and Safety Labor Nanny State Regulatory Reform Tech and Telecom Trade and International Transportation    Also featuring...  CEI IN THE NEWS  THE "FRED WEEKLY"

SCOTUS & OBAMACARE - HANS BADER Openmarket.org: Justic Kagan Should Recuse Herself From Obamacare Case Only in Bizarro World can you claim someone is your attorney — and thus shielded by attorney work-product privilege — and then insist in the very next breath that they never represented you. But that is what the Obama administration and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan are doing. The Obama administration refuses to release its communications with Kagan about health care litigation back when she was the administration’s Solicitor General, on the grounds that they are covered by attorney work-product protection. Yet, contradictorily, it and Kagan insist that she never acted as the administration’s lawyer in the matter, and thus doesn’t need to recuse herself from hearing the constitutional challenges to Obamacare that will be decided by the Supreme Court this year.  >View the commentary on Openmarket.org   > Read more by Hans Bader LABOR UNION POLITICS - TREY KOVACS Openmarket.org:Michigan SEIU Scam the Product of Government Collective Bargaining Proponents of government collective bargaining view it as a fundamental human right. The shameful actions of SEIU in Michigan, however, undermine this claim. In 2005, Michigan lawmakers signed off to create the Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3). MQC3 maintains a registry of homecare providers to assist Medicaid recipients looking for a caregiver. In reality, the primary function of MQC3 was to make 45,000 private homecare providers government employees and dues-paying union members. In 2006, SEIU took advantage of Michigan law deeming homecare providers government employees. To gain exclusive representation SEIU organized a covert union campaign. The stealth-organizing tactic led to 20 percent voter turnout and SEIU won a landslide victory. Soon thereafter, SEIU obtained a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the state. The events following the CBA expose the dangers of government union political influence and permanence of CBAs. > View the full commentary on Openmarket.org > Read more on labor policy at Workplacechoice.org SINDUSTRY NEWS - MICHELLE MINTON Openmarket.org: Alcohol Regulation Roundup In national news: Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon announced last week that he is withdrawing his support of the CARE Act, the piece of legislation that will likely make it more difficult for small producers of wine, beer, and spirits to reach the market. In his statement, Rep. Schrader noted that after listening to the concerns of Oregon’s wine growers he now believes the legislation would be detrimental to their industry.  > View the full commentary on state and national alcohol regulation on Openmarket.org > Read more by Michelle Minton, CEI Fellow in Consumer Policy Studies   EPA JOB KILLER Globalwarming.org:EPA’s Big Mercury Lie Already Killing Jobs Recently, I blogged about EPA’s big mercury lie. In a nutshell, the Agency claims that its ultra-expensive new Mercury and Air Toxics rule is appropriate and necessary in order to protect fetuses from developmental disorders. Yet, according to EPA’s own analysis, the new mercury regulation serves to protect America’s supposed population of pregnant, subsistence fisherwomen, who eat 300 pounds of self-caught fish reeled in exclusively from the most polluted bodies of water. To put it another way, this regulation, which costs $10 billion annually, safeguards a population that doesn’t exist. > View the full commentary on Globalwarming.org > Read more by energy policy experts on Globalwarming.org   Ten Thousand Commandments By Wayne Crews Welcome to The Other National Debt -- The Cost of Regulation -> Read Today's Decrees CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Watchdog.org - 2,000-plus turn out to ‘Celebrate Gov. Walker’ in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Reporter

WAUWATOSA — In spite of the bite of a cold Wisconsin January afternoon, supporters of Gov.Scott Walker turned out en masse at Hart Park here to rally the Republican troops in the shadow of a massive campaign targeting the embattled governor, his lieutenant and four GOP senators.

Some of the biggest names among Wisconsin Republicans showed up to offer their support at the“Celebrate Walker” rally, including former Gov. Tommy Thompson and former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann, his opponent in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race. The bitter rivals seemed to put aside their differences Saturday long enough for the Republican cause.

Some pro-recall demonstrators turned out, too, leading to a few verbal clashes but “few problems” and no arrests, according to Wauwatosa police.

A crowd estimated at more than 2,000, according to police, attended the event, virtually held in the governor’s backyard in the city he and his family call home.

The event, which brought out Walker supporters from around the state, took place five days after the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and liberal political action committee United Wisconsin turned in about 1.9 million recall signatures, by the party’s count — including more than 1 million in the effort against the governor.

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NHDP - Nine to Five: While New Hampshire Works, House Republicans Attack New Hampshire Workers

Concord, NH - Today, while thousands of New Hampshire families and small business owners are at work, House Republicans will be holding hearings on more than half a dozen bills attacking workers and worker rights.  New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley released the following statement on the reckless legislation being debated by Republicans on the House Labor Committee. 

"While the men and women of New Hampshire are at work today, the reckless O'Brien - Bettencourt legislature in Concord will be debating more than half a dozen bills attacking those hard working individuals. Republican House Bills 1163, 1206, 1174, 1237, 1570, 1645, and 1663 continue this legislature's unprecedented attack against New Hampshire workers.  They would force New Hampshire to join the so-called right to work states, unfairly single out union employees, and allow the legislature to interfere in employer - employee negotiations.

"Time and time again the Republican Tea Partiers in Concord have abandoned any thoughts of focusing on job creation and economic growth.  Instead their agenda has been a laser like focus aimed at eliminating; health care for women, good paying New Hampshire jobs, voting rights, and our well educated work force."