STATEMENT: Small Businesses, Workers Deserve the Right to Work
CHARLESTON, Feb. 9, 2015–Gil White, West Virginia state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, released the following statement today on House Bill 2643 and Senate Bill 337, legislation that would guarantee West Virginians the right to work:
“If we’re serious about attracting jobs, high-paying jobs, we need to make West Virginia a right-to-work state.
“If you want to join a union, join a union, but being a right-to-work state means you don’t have to pay union dues to get a job and support your family. It also means you can’t be fired for joining a union. Right-to-work means exactly what it says. It means you have a right to work.
“This is be the most important economic reform to come before the Legislature in decades, and it will make West Virginia immediately more competitive regionally, nationally and internationally. That’s why West Virginia’s small businesses are urging lawmakers to vote ‘yes’ on right-to-work.”
NFIB is the state’s leading small-business association with 1,600 dues-paying members across West Virginia representing a cross section of the state’s economy. Learn more at www.NFIB.com/WV, or follow @NFIB_WV on Twitter.
