Issue Position: Restore Prevailing Wage

Issue Position

Prevailing wage rates were created during the Great Depression to ensure that cheap, out-of-state labor could not flood our workforce and ensure that West Virginians could receive jobs on public works projects. This year, the Legislature took away these protections for local workers. This policy is already costing local workers jobs and hurting local businesses. 32 states have such laws to protect state jobs from companies who import foreign workers and immigrants, instead of hiring local workers.

If elected, I will work to repeal this destructive law to protect local jobs and businesses.

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