The only collective bargaining agent I ever had was the U.S. Congress. The minimum wage still purchases far less than it did 25 years ago. We are trying to encourage people to work, to get them off the welfare rolls. The Workers' Compensation Fund has been a focus of political controversy for years. Many businesses complain premiums are too high.
Workers often complain benefits are too tight.
Throughout his gubernatorial campaign, Wise criticized the Underwood administration for trying to dismiss lawsuits against major coal companies whose contractors were delinquent. If the governor thought there was a questionable legal issue at that point, he should have gone ahead and tried one of them. Wise said dismissal of the coal lawsuits also raises an ethical question. The legal canon of ethics requires a lawyer to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. He says taxpayers and small businesses bear the brunt of Workers' Comp costs related to the lawsuits.