{"id":21,"date":"2008-06-11T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:22:23","slug":"lynch-signs-smaller-unions-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/06\/11\/lynch-signs-smaller-unions-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynch signs smaller unions into law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 11, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashuatelegraph.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080611\/NEWS02\/575044036\">Nashua Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gov. John Lynch signed legislation that lets groups as small as three form a public employee union but only if the local government agrees to it.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, groups no smaller than 10 can unionize.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. John Knowles, D-Hudson, wrote the measure (HB 1127) to make it not binding on any city or town.<\/p>\n<p>Union leaders argue that smaller locals can more effectively bargain over their working conditions that may differ from other public employee departments.<\/p>\n<p>A bill that gave local government no say in forming a union smaller than 10 cleared the state Senate last year. It died before the House of Representatives after intense lobbying from local officials.<\/p>\n<p>The new law takes effect in early August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 11, 2008 Nashua Telegraph Gov. John Lynch signed legislation that lets groups as small as three form a public employee union but only if the local government agrees to it. Currently, groups no smaller than 10 can unionize. Rep. John Knowles, D-Hudson, wrote the measure (HB 1127) to make it not binding on any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,71,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-governor-watch","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}