Pro-Worker candidates are five-for-five in N.H.

Pro-worker candidate Peter Sullivan won a special election to the New Hampshire State House yesterday with more than 80 percent of the vote. With the addition of Sullivan, Granite Staters have again rejected State House Speaker Bill O’Brien’s anti-worker agenda, electing pro-worker candidates in all five special elections since 2010.

O’Brien and his cronies in the New Hampshire House continue to ignore the public and push an agenda that will harm working families statewide. Six anti-worker bills have passed through the committee process and could be headed to the House floor, including two right-to-work-for-less bills and bills that would: allow public employers to lead decertification efforts; give the state legislature the right to veto any state or municipal labor contract; increase public service workers’ healthcare costs and strip public sector unions of the ability to negotiate on behalf of their members.

Voters have clearly rejected O’Brien’s anti-worker agenda at every possible opportunity by electing pro-worker lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, yet the Speaker and his cronies have pressed on with his dangerous and unpopular legislation. Gov. John Lynch, with support from AFSCME and the voters, has made it clear that he will continue to support public service employees and block anti-worker legislation coming out of the legislature.