Labor Issues Poll

Total Started Survey: 403
Total Finished Survey: 403 (100%)

1. Construction projects (roads, bridges, schools, etc.) funded by public tax dollars in Pennsylvania are subject to the Prevailing Wage law, which essentially requires the highest union level wages be paid on all such projects. Do you believe the commonwealth’s system of Prevailing Wages should be kept, or should governmental entities be permitted to bid out such projects and allow maket conditions to set labor rates?

2. Pennsylvania’s Prevailing Wage law currently applies to all government constuction projects costing $25,000 or more. That cost threshold has been in effect for decades. There is a proposal before the General Assembly to change the law to apply to all government construction projects costsing $100,000 or more. Would you SUPPORT or OPPOSE changing the cost threshold?

3. Currently, many school districts collect union dues via payroll deductions from the paychecks of teachers and other school district employees. Those dues are then transferred to union bank accounts. State legislators in Harrisburg are considering a law that would require unions to collect these membership dues directly instead of relying on school districts and other governmental units to do this. Generally speaking do you FAVOR or OPPOSE this proposed new law?

4. Current state law permits businesses and labor unions to engage in stalking, harrassment, and the making of threats to use weapons of mass destruction during a labor dispute. Lawmakers are considering a change in law to prohibit such actions during labor disputes. Do you FAVOR or OPPOSE making it illegal for businesses and labor unions to engage in these activities?

5. Do you FAVOR or OPPOSE enactment of what is commonly referred to as a Right to Work law, whereby a worker cannot be compelled to join or pay fees to a labor union as a condition of employment?