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

Proving once again that the Republican leadership’s “jobs agenda” is just talk and no action, the New Hampshire House is set to vote on dozens of bills this week that are all about tea party-fueled attacks on New Hampshire families. Bills set to be heard this week include a new, so-called right to work (RTW) for less bill, cutting Medicaid for New Hampshire’s poorest and restricting access to birth control, while bills to put Granite Staters back to work are conspicuously absent from the docket.

Attacks on workers. The House is voting on more than a dozen anti-worker bills this week, including a reincarnation of last year’s RTW bill. Below is a list of the bills that are expected to be voted on next week:

• H.B. 1677, a new “right to work” bill nearly identical to the “right to work” bill that failed in the House last year.
• H.B. 1645, a bill that once allowed employer-led decertification of public unions.
• H.B. 1206, a bill that throws out provisions of collective bargaining agreements at the end of a contract if a new contract has not yet been reached, making it harder for workers and management to come to agreement through the bargaining process.
• H.B. 1663, a bill that strips the requirement for a union to be the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit out of the collective bargaining law.
• H.B. 1237, a bill that imposes oversight from the House and Senate on the collective bargaining process between the state and its employees.

Dismantling voting rights. New Hampshire House Speaker William O’Brien failed to override a veto of his voter ID law last year, so he and his allies have come up with a new plan. The new bill does not fix any existing problems and further complicates and confuses the process for voters.

Attacks on health care. The House leadership is pushing for a law to cut off $1.4 billion in funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors who perform elective abortions—at the expense of the thousands of poor, disadvantaged, elderly or disabled citizens who rely on Medicaid. Legislators also will vote on a bill to repeal the law guaranteeing New Hampshire families access to contraception. Is Speaker O’Brien so intent on pushing his right-wing agenda that he is willing to cut health care for women, the poor and people with disabilities to get his way?

The House leadership’s tea party-fueled social agenda comes at a time when a plurality of voters say that jobs and the economy are the most important problems facing the state. A February 2012 poll shows that 51 percent of independent and Republican voters oppose the GOP’s social agenda, while a majority (64 percent) of likely voters believe that RTW and other attacks on collective bargaining should not be a priority of the Legislature.