Bill O'Brien promises to push Right to Work measure 'to the front of the legislative line'
Former state House Speaker Bill O'Brien, who is campaigning for another term as Speaker should Republicans take control of the House, has signaled he would take up where he left off when voters stripped his party of control in 2012.
O'Brien promises he will push Right to Work legislation “to the front of the legislative line” in the upcoming term. In his previous term as Speaker, the Mont Vernon Republican’s Ahab-like obsession to enact the anti-union legislation failed despite overwhelming Republican majorities in both chambers.
Yesterday, O'Brien praised the Supreme Court ruling that declared unions representing “quasi-public” employees cannot require non-union workers to pay union fees. The decision “bolsters hopes that all government employees will one day be free from paying forced union dues as a condition of employment,” O'Brien wrote on Facebook.
“Freedom from Union Tyranny abetted by state laws. That is what Right to Work has always been about,” he continued. “This upcoming legislative term we must put restoring worker freedom in New Hampshire to the front of the legislative line.”
As before, O'Brien inveighed against union bosses. “In this ‘Live Free or Die’ state, we have the courage to give workers a choice to pay or not pay union dues,” he wrote. “No one should be forced to turn over their hard-earned wages to union bosses.”