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‘Right to Work’ for Less Defeated Again in New Hampshire

AFL-CIO communications staffer Nora Frederickson sends us this report from New Hampshire.

The Republican Speaker of the New Hampshire House enlisted no fewer than five Republican presidential candidates today in an unsuccessful attempt to convince state representatives to override Gov. John Lynch’s veto of a “right to work” for less bill (H.B. 474).

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Thousands Continue Wisconsin Action for Workers’ Rights

After daylong protests yesterday drew as many as 30,000 people in Madison, hundreds of Wisconsin workers, students and allies camped out last night in the Capitol Rotunda as a hearing on Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) budget bill that eliminates collective bargaining rights for nearly all of the state’s public service workers went past midnight.

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