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The Reason Why NH State Rep Brodie Deshaies (R-Wolfeboro) Supports Unions (Think Right-To-Work): Bought and Paid For!

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Skip

I keep saying “I get stuff” and “people send me even more stuff”. It seems that several such folks believe that Republicans should let Brodie Deshaies drop like a rock. There was another attempt, here in NH, to pass Right To Work legislation. Here are the Union payments to his campaign fund for this year’s … Read more

Biden Speaks (lies) to AFL-CIO. Facts Matter

June 17, 2022 Ray Cardello

Joe Biden spoke to the AFL-CIO this week in what can only be called a stump speech. It was a campaign speech complete with volume changes from whispers to yelling. It was big on style but weak on content. His speech was filled with lies and was both embarrassing and insulting.

Breaking: Southwest Pilots Win – Vaccine Exemption Requests Have Been Approved

November 24, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Pilots at Southwest Airlines have won an enormous victory. The company has announced it will honor all COVID19 Vaccine Exemption requests.

students classroom (no masks) kids teacher Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Can Public Education Regain the Lost Confidence of Parents and Taxpayers?

August 23, 2021 Michael Moffett

Democrat Governor Kate Brown recently signed Oregon’s Senate Bill 744, ending graduation proficiency requirements. Sad but true. The Beaver State will allow students to graduate from high school that can’t read, write, or do the math – in line with national “dumbing down” movements.

Former IBEW Steward – Right to Work Will Protect New Hampshire Workers

June 1, 2021

It’s all too common for people in politics to claim to speak for everyone, even when they just don’t. Take union bosses in the current fight over Right to Work: They act like all union members oppose Right to Work, but in reality that’s just not true.

Biden’s* 15.00/Hour Minimum Wage Order Will Help Union Bosses Fund Democrat Campaigns

April 28, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA*) has Joe Signing another Executive Order. It’s meant to sound like lower-class goodness, but the only people Biden is helping are Union Bosses and Democrat politicians.

Planned Parenthood Northern New England President Quits After Workers Unionize

April 16, 2021 Beth Scaer

In August 2020, the Maine staff of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) voted to unionize. In February 2021, the Vermont staff of PPNNE also voted to form a union. In April 2021, it was announced that PPNNE’s long-time president had unexpectedly resigned.

You Can’t Unionize Jobs That Don’t Exist

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 Ian Underwood

Remember when Amazon pulled out of Seattle in part because of the city was planning to target its largest employers with a ‘head tax’? Remember when Amazon scuttled its plans to open a center in New York City, because AOC and other progressives organized opposition to the move? Clearly this is a company that is … Read more

Josiah Bartlett – Two Ways to Decide Whether Right to Work Is Right for New Hampshire

March 28, 2021 Op-Ed

Most U.S. States (27) have Right to Work laws, and that includes a growing number in the industrial Midwest. Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin have them, and every state bordering Ohio, save Pennsylvania, has one.

Notable Quote – Minimum Wage is RAAACIST (said by a Black man)

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Skip

The minimum wage law is very cleverly misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero – and that is what many inexperienced and low-skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

The PRO Act Will Kill More Than One Job in Three

February 15, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Have you ever heard of the PRO Act? You might want to take an interest if you an independent contractor, gig worker, or you do freelancing. Why? The expectation is it will eliminate most forms of independent contracting, gig work, and freelancing. Have I got your attention now?

I Am Asking the Board of Aldermen to Veto the Collective Bargaining Agreement

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Laura Colquhoun

I am asking the Board of Aldermen to veto the Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Board of Fire Commissioners of the City of Nashua for the sake of the Nashua taxpayers.

A Tipping Point – Teachers Pushing Parents to Homeschool…

October 7, 2020 Skip

As a former local Budget Committee member, I can tell you that the phrase “it’s for the children” is a complete lie – it’s really for the adults in the teachers union.”

BLM, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Happy Labor Day?

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Today unions representing millions of workers are threatening to authorize strikes. Those strikes are not for better wages. They have nothing to do with working conditions. The strikes are not even for the union members. They are in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and social justice.

Democrats Disenfranchising Millions More Blue Collar Workers

August 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The Democrats threw white middle-class workers under the bus in 2016, and it cost them an election. But you learn from your mistakes, or maybe you’re too damn smart to learn anything. That would be Democrats, who pissed of the police unions already and have now turned off a 3 million-member trade union.

NBoE Ray Guarino - break law go on strike

Clarity – Teachers are Telling us They are Non-Essential but Extortionist in Nature

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Skip

For those of us around at that time, what teacher’s unions are hinting at sounds like “PATCO” more and more. If you weren’t, that refers to the Federal air traffic controllers that tried to call then-President Reagan’s bluff. By law, they couldn’t strike; they did anyways. They lost – he fired them all.

School Union Bosses Are Holding Your Children’s Future Hostage

August 6, 2020 Op-Ed

With fewer than four weeks remaining before school begins, union bosses, school administrative units (SAUs), and school boards seem to be conspiring to hold the school year hostage at the price of our children’s future.

Four Labor Unions Sign Work Agreement on 8 Billion Dollar Project Joe Biden Promised to Kill if Elected

August 5, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Jobs were only briefly “not a big concern” for most of America. The Trump economy had reached what technically amounts to full employment. Then the Dems and Globalists killed it with this COVID fraud and jobs are a thing again. And Joe Biden has promised to kill a whole bunch of them if elected.

Nationwide Police Organization That Supported Obama (Twice) Endorses President Trump in 2020

July 18, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The National Association of Police Organizations has a good idea who has their back, and it is not Joe Biden. That should have been apparent years ago, but we’re talking about unions and other bragging groups that typically lean toward Democrats. Not this time around.

NH Dems Take Note: Massachusetts Has Mass Public School Teacher Layoff ‘cuz COVID19

June 18, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Towns in Massachusetts are laying off public school teachers. In some cases, more than one hundred per district. Why? The COIVID19 shutdown Democrats were so hot for has harpooned tax revenues: no commerce, no money, no revenues, no paychecks.