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Union Leader Editorial on PFFNH vs NHLGC
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| Firefighters win: And so do the rest of us
from Union Leader: http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Firefighters+win%3a+And+so+do+the+rest+of+us&articleId=c2b80c9e-7634-4ce2-818a-4ee0a4aba32b
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
Congratulations, and kudos, to the Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire for its state Supreme Court victory over the Local Government Center last month. The win is a victory for all Granite Staters, not just the firefighters and other public employees who have wondered for so long how their money was being spentFor eight years, the firefighters have tried to get the Local Government Center to open its financial records. The center opened some but not others. The firefighters have twice gone to court to get the center to comply with the state's Right to Know law. This time, the center argued that even though it was a government entity, some of its records were not covered by the Right to Know law.
On Jan. 29, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with the firefighters, who had requested in this particular case that the center release all of its salary information. But the firefighters' dispute is far from over. The union is still fighting for more data to find out if the center has been misusing public funds, particularly employee pension contributions.
David Lang, head of the firefighters union, deserves a big thanks for pressing this case for so many years and seeing it through to its satisfactory conclusion.
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