Opinion

Right to work, prevailing wage on fast track to where?

An editorial from The Register-Herald

BECKLEY, W.Va. — Legislators are pondering two bills that proponents say will help the business climate of West Virginia and that opponents say will be the ruination of what businesses the state has left.

Those bills concern the right to work — which means a union shop could not require its employees to belong to a union, or to pay union dues and fees — and abolishment of the state’s prevailing wage law. In government contracting, a prevailing wage is defined as the hourly wage, usual benefits and overtime, paid to the majority of workers, laborers and mechanics within a particular area.

And perhaps we go too far in classifying what is happening at the state Capitol as “pondering.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives the simple definition of ponder as “to think about or consider (something) carefully.”

We don’t think that is what is happening in Charleston.

We don’t think that the legislative leadership is carefully considering the thoughts and wishes of constituents, experts or anyone with an opinion other than their own…

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