The New Hampshire House has just voted (225-140) for the Right to Work Bill and now it goes to Governor John Lynch (D-NH) who has six days to sign or veto the worker freedom legislation.
The New Hampshire Right to Work Bill (HB 474) simply provides freedom to New Hampshire employees. Quoting from bill HB 474 description; it provides the “freedom of choice on whether to join a labor union.”
Will Governor Lynch continue to impose Big Labor tyranny on New Hampshire workers or will he sign the Bill making New Hampshire the 23rd Right to Work State and the freest state in North East?
The ILA hierarchy’s clear motive in suing two carriers that had docked at Leatherman, and in its threat to sue others if they did the same, was to bully the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), with whom the union had no contract, into selling out the freedom of union-free port employees who then operated heavy equipment.
Union-label state Democrat politicians like Mr. Surovell and Gov. Abigail Spanberger evidently calculated that a mandatory monopoly-bargaining law would be a less politically costly way than Right to Work destruction for them to pay back the Big Labor bosses who had been critical to their 2025 electoral successes.
National Right to Work Committee members and supporters across the country are fighting back through their active participation in the federal Committee Survey 2026 citizen mobilization program.