CONCORD — Making New Hampshire a right-to-work state moved one step closer Monday as a Senate committee voted along party lines 3-2 to recommend passing the bill.
The Senate Commerce Committee held a five-hour hearing on Senate Bill 61 last week with a vast majority of the testimony in opposition to the bill that would prohibit collective bargaining agreements from requiring all employees to pay for the negotiating and administrating costs of master contracts.
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