Posted on 01/08/2017 2:58:05 PM PST by blam
Mish Shedlock
January 7, 2017
In a major setback for organized labor, Kentucky passed right-to-work legislation and repealed the state’s prevailing wage law.
“Organized labor suffered its first major legislative setback due to the 2016 elections on Saturday, when Kentucky Republicans gave final approval to right-to-work legislation and repealed the state’s prevailing wage law. Both bills are expected to be signed into law by the governor, and will take effect immediately.
Labor leaders were equally troubled by the legislature’s move to gut the state’s prevailing wage law. Such laws require that employers pay certain minimum wages on work funded by public money. Backers of the laws say they help make sure companies accepting taxpayer dollars don’t drive down wages and working conditions. Opponents argue they inflate the cost of public works projects.
The repeal means prevailing wages will no longer apply to construction workers building schools and government buildings.
Charlie Essex, the financial secretary for Local 369 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Louisville, called the measure “an attack on union people.” He estimated that the prevailing wage law applied to more than 30 percent of union construction work in Kentucky.
Backed by business lobbies, Republican lawmakers around the country have been aggressive in pushing right-to-work bills and prevailing wage repeals in recent years. When Democrats lose control of a statehouse chamber or the governor’s mansion, they are often powerless to stop them.
Long confined to the South and West, right-to-work proponents have recently made inroads elsewhere in the country, including even the industrial Midwest. Since 2012, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia have all gone right-to-work. Kentucky will be the 27th such state, making it more the norm than the exception around the country.”
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You'd like to figure a way to git yer hands on a bunch of that money, I'll bet...
Actually I would like to pay them a REASONABLE wage so I can hire more and get the job done on time.
I won’t even get into the requirements for diversity.
Two weeks termination pay? Never knew anyone who got that . What world is this common?
Congress can do its part and kill Davis-Bacon.
$49 per hour is overtime pay for skilled union workers where I live.
The ones making $100,000 practically live at the job.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about me, aren’t you? I’ve been in management part of my career as a registered nurse, and if you think being a conservative means I have to like unfair business practices, you’re just wrong. All business owners are not saints. I’ve worked for wonderful people and I’ve worked for jerks.
How so? If one is a solid and dependable employee than no company would want to get rid of that person. If the company was going under, then it wouldn't matter if there was a Right-to-Work law or not anyhow.
“I’m staunch conservative”
With all due respect, if you’re ok with forcing people to join unions and watching part of thier wages confiscated and sent to the Rats whether they like it or not then you sir are not a staunch conservative.
Easy fire means easy hire. If the employer has to essentially marry an applicant (in the sense that firing an employee is as much hassle as getting a divorce), then the employer is much less likely to take a chance on an applicant. HR paperwork and bureaucratic CYA before you can hire anybody.
If you are employed at will, your employer does not need good cause to fire you. In every state but Montana (which protects employees who have completed an initial "probationary period" from being fired without cause), employers are free to adopt at-will employment policies, and many of them have. In fact, unless your employer gives some clear indication that it will only fire employees for good cause, the law presumes that you are employed at will.Employment At Will: What Does It Mean?
Thank you. There are some people on this site, who, if they don’t agree with you, try to shred you.
I already stated I’m not a union person.
Kentucky could never compete with Tennessee or North Carolina with their Unions.
The DOL has made unions extinct. Easy money going Bye-Bye.
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No, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 demands that.
Not really. The civil rights act does not cover failure to do your job.
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apparently ‘flames’ can cloud the ‘conservative’ mind.
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Re-read both posts.
I read that.
The “without reason” part is based on law. It is lack of performance or downsizing.
Why a law from 1964 is being discussed is kinda ridiculous.
If your hired at will you are fired at will. The law states it cannot be prejudicial. That’s all.
Unless you are the second in command, there may well be a boss who feels threatened by your skills and ability...They can and do eliminate employment assets...Not to mention personality conflicts...
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