There are a number of unions representing employees of the city of Nashua. Writing about them would be a very interesting story for the Patch to do. The Union Leader has a story about a couple of grievances that the city has rejected, and there are others mentioned by the Telegraph.

How about a story showing the details of all grievances filed in 2012. People could then see the protection the unions are affording their members.

Jim that would be very difficult to do and here is why. Unless the grievance is taken all the way to the NH-PELRB then the public would not have any knowledge of it and is considered private information by the union.

OK News Flash you have made your point this is topic that everyone is talking about, yet all your doing is passing links.

I back up my OPINION Pieces with facts.

NLNN, You're not really giving NF any time are you? What does he know about unions? My guess is, only what he hears on FOX "NEWS" while spending his days living in his mothers basement. Keep up the good fight, protecting the rights and lives of the American workers. Paid vacations, 8hour work days, 5 day work weeks, health benefits, child labor laws, and job safety are all due to the efforts of those union members who came and fought before you.

The author fails to mention that much of the Stimulus monies was not used for "shovel ready jobs" but instead used by states to shore up the pension funds of public service workers.
The author does not mention that the UAW benefitted by over 26 BILLION in the auto bailout and that the bailout stiffed the non union members of Delphi.
The author fails to mention that the prevailing wage law on public projects increases the cost of a public project by an estimated 5-12%.
The Big Dig cost close to $25 Billion. 5% of 25 BILLION is $1.25 Billion. The Democrat Governor of Massachusetts just requested a tax hike of close to $2 Billion. Interesting...you see, he claims the money is needed for roads and infrastructure....in reality, the money is also needed to shore up the Mass Public Union Pension Liability. If he said he need the money for the pensions it would go over like a lead balloon. Instead, he claims raods and infrastructure.

Get your labor from out of this country, then union and non-union can sit at home.

I hear tutors are great from India.

Labor unions had a worthwhile purpose when they were first created. But when greedy demands for outrageous wages and benefits set in, the unions started their downhill tumble. The unions of today have outlived their usefulness. The sooner they are made extinct, the better off we'll all be.

That is the same logic people use for border control. The next State of the Union address should be used to bolster your thoughts. The Soviet Union has not vanished.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

Greedy union members or greedy non-union members? It was the employee that could get a better deal without carrying the weight of everyone else that lead to the down fall of organized labor. The young and strong don't need the old and weak. And it doesn't take long to divide and concur.

So, trying to shrink government to a level that its' citizens can afford is something that Unions are opposed to? Go figure.

As usual, Mr. News Flash does not know what he is talking about on union pension costs. Under current state law, all full time employees of municipalities, including school districts, must join the NH Retirement System. This has nothing to do with the unions. Back during the 90's, both parties in the Legislature reduced the payments by cities and towns based on exceptional investment earnings by the Retirement System. When those high rates of return on investments dropped, the charges to the cities and towns were not adjusted accordingly. This situation went on for at least a decade and now the chickens are coming home to roost, especially since the state no longer pays a portion of the local cost. Under the law, a City of Town could withdraw from the NH Retirement System, but they would be responsible for the pensions of all retired employees, since their current employees would no longer be paying into the system. In addition, this payment would have to made up front in a lump sum, according to current law. O'Brien and Kirk have been pushing to eliminate the Retirement System for all new employees. However, even they admit that they have no idea where the esitmated one to two billion dollars for current employees when they retire would come from, with a diminishing number of employees paying into the system, Again, these are the state laws, not part of union agreements, etc.