Over 5,000 Rally In Boston In The #FightFor15, Kicking Worldwide Day Of...
Massachusetts Kicked Off the Largest Ever Global Mobilization of Underpaid Workers Protest on Six Continents; Adjunct Professors, Home Care, Child Care, Transportation, Fast Food, Janitorial, and...
View ArticleLeo W Gerard: The High Cost Of Fighting For $15
2014 Fast Food Strike NYC (FLIKR Annette Bernhardt) This is no plea for pity for corporate kingpins like Walmart and McDonald’s inundated by workers’ demands for living wages. Raises would, of course,...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Worker Wins Update: Wages and Numbers Rise for Working Families
WASHINGTON, DC– Workers across the country have stood up in the past month to fight for better wages and working conditions. Worker Voices Raise Worker Wages: Under pressure from workers, major...
View ArticleMeet SHRM – The HR Association Lobbying and Suing To Roll Back Workers Rights
This article was republished with permission from Political Research Associates. The original article can be found here. “If it happens that you don’t agree with one of SHRM’s positions, we ask that...
View ArticleStatement of Rep. Jackie Cilley on the vote on HB 684 (Minimum Wage)
(Barrington, NH ) While I am disappointed by the votes in the House and Senate today, I see reasons for optimism going forward. At the beginning of this session, everyone predicted that legislation as...
View ArticleSenator Soucy Condemns Senate GOP for Failing to Raise the NH Minimum Wage
Republicans Kill Minimum Wage Increase that Affects More Than 76,000 people CONCORD – Senator Donna Soucy of Manchester issued the following statement today after Senate Republicans defeated her...
View ArticleBi-Partisan Group Of State Legislators Met With Community Members From The...
From Left: Efstathia Booras – D Hillsborough 33, David Murotake – R – Hillsborough 32, Martin Jack – D – Hillsborough 36 Suzanne Harvey – D Hillsborough 29, C. Lee Guerette – D – Hillsborough 33,...
View ArticleNo Legislation That Represents The Will Of The People
By Ron Geoffroy Retired NATCA member Image from @OFA_NH pic.twitter.com/ZG7B0GfERQ If I remember my history classes, as far back as that may have been, I remember that the right of every American was...
View ArticleGovernor Hassan Urges Senate Finance Committee to Support Restoring and...
CONCORD – Continuing efforts to strengthen the financial security of hard-working Granite Staters and expand middle class opportunity, Governor Maggie Hassan today submitted a letter to the Senate...
View ArticleRaising The Minimum Wage Helps Seniors And Boosts The Social Security Trust Fund
Testimony On Raising The Minimum Wage From Lucy Edwards, President of the NH Alliance For Retired Americans The following statement was e-mailed to the House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative...
View ArticleMake Your Voice Heard On Raising The Minimum Wage And Opposing Right To Work
The time is now to stand up for working families. Over the next two weeks the New Hampshire Legislature will be holding public hearings on raising the minimum wage and the aptly named Right To Work...
View ArticleGranite State Rumblings: The 2016 Presidential Budget Is Released
Today, as I write this newsletter, it is Groundhog Day and the snow is coming down fast and steady. Punxsutawney Phil has predicted another 6 weeks of winter. While I am an animal lover, I must confess...
View ArticleAFT-NH Legislative Update 2-3-15: Kicking Off The Session
The 2015 session of the NH State legislature is underway and as always, there are many bills to follow and monitor. Some legislative proposals will garner our support but others will earn our enmity...
View ArticleAn Argument For Eliminating The Tipped Minimum Wage
(Screenshot College Humor YouTube) Every morning millions of Americans wake up and get ready to go to work as servers in restaurants, hoping that today will be a busy day, and that they will have extra...
View ArticleJackie Cilley: It Is Time To Raise The Minimum Wage
State Rep Jackie Cilley, Image from Cilley For NH on Facebook An idea is rapidly gaining force around the country, finding support across the political spectrum. Red states Arkansas, Alaska, South...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Releases Youth Economic Platform, Leading Up to State of the Union...
Platform to serve as foundation for upcoming nationwide actions Today, the AFL-CIO Young Worker Advisory Council released its economic platform as part of an effort to build a nationwide youth economic...
View ArticleAfter Gov. Hassan’s Inaugural Speech The NH GOP Spread False Talking Points...
New Hampshire Republicans Double Down on Opposition to Strengthening Wages for Hard-Working Granite Staters Republicans Use Debunked Claims About Effect of Minimum Wage on Job Creation; Data Shows 2014...
View ArticleAFL-CIO Announces Raising Wages Summits in Presidential Primary States
Expanded Campaign in Seven Cities The first National Summit on Raising Wages definitively set the tone for political and economic action in the New Year. It generated an in-depth, diverse conversation...
View ArticleProgressive NH State Rep To Propose Minimum Wage Increase To $14.25 And...
Representative Jackie Cilley to introduce far-reaching minimum wage legislation Fmr. State Senator and Gubernatorial candidate returns to Concord to pursue middle-class agenda (Barrington, NH) After a...
View ArticleMy Question To The Walton Family: How Much Is Enough?
How much money is enough? Do you stop being a greedy capitalist when you no longer care what anything costs? Do you stop when you become one of the named people on the “Richest People In America”...
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