Home About PMA Bulletin Alliance Members Legislative Issues Resources PMA Perspective Search form Search Labor Issues Repeal the prevailing wage law. Enact additional reforms to the unemployment and workers compensation systems, reforms that target cost drivers in both. Make Pennsylvania a right to work state by securing the right of employees to decide for themselves whether to join or financially support a union. Supply Chain: Workforce Crisis Submitted by Maura Donley on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 12:20pm Testimony before the: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Economic Growth Supply Chain: Workforce Crisis David N. Taylor, President & CEO April 29, 2021 Read more about Supply Chain: Workforce Crisis Hike in mandated wage would hurt the very people Gov. Wolf says he wants to help The celebrated economist Thomas Sowell, who happens to be African American, once tried to convince members of the Congressional Black Caucus of the economic and societal foolishness of supporting an increase in the minimum wage. But with political agendas being what they were, he swayed no one by arguing that an increase in the minimum wage (even the mere existence of it) hurts the very people it’s purportedly designed to help. Read more about Hike in mandated wage would hurt the very people Gov. Wolf says he wants to help Wolf’s Proposed Overtime Rule Slams Taxpayers and Employers The Wolf Administration is pushing for a prohibitively costly change to overtime eligibility, similar to a move by the Obama Administration that a federal court rejected as blatantly disregarding both the letter and the spirit of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Read more about Wolf’s Proposed Overtime Rule Slams Taxpayers and Employers VP Pence visits PA, urges passage of USMCA Vice President Mike Pence visited one of Northeast Pennsylvania’s long-time manufacturers, Schott Advanced Optics in Duryea, urging congressional approval of a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, the USMCA. U.S. manufacturers have thrown their full weight behind the negotiated agreement; it will add billions to the economy and create thousands of high paying manufacturing jobs. Tags: USMCA Read more about VP Pence visits PA, urges passage of USMCA PMA Statement on Janus v. AFSCME Submitted by Maura Donley on Wed, 06/27/2018 - 9:51pm Read more about PMA Statement on Janus v. AFSCME One-Note Wolf Renews Campaign to Kill Energy Jobs Submitted by Maura Donley on Mon, 04/30/2018 - 2:49pm Governor’s monomania for higher energy taxes is undiminished Harrisburg, PA – (April 30, 2018) Today, Governor Tom Wolf trotted out his tedious, shopworn plan to smother Pennsylvania’s most promising economic opportunity, despite the certainty that he cannot get his tax hike through the General Assembly. Read more about One-Note Wolf Renews Campaign to Kill Energy Jobs Statement on Governor Tom Wolf's Veto of Senate Bill 936 Submitted by Maura Donley on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 3:41pm DAVID N. TAYLOR STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR TOM WOLF’S VETO OF SENATE BILL 936 HARRISBURG, PA – April 27, 2018 – The following statement can be attributed to David N. Taylor, Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association President & CEO: Read more about Statement on Governor Tom Wolf's Veto of Senate Bill 936 The Truth About Steel/Aluminum Tariffs Resonates, Despite Scare Tactics The steel and aluminum tariffs ordered by the President Trump last week elicited the same “Chicken Little” squawks as the end of net neutrality, the roll-back of years of Obama market meddling regulations, and across-the-board cuts in federal taxes. The calamitous fallout predicted from the President’s latest policy move includes tit-for-tat trade wars, skyrocketing consumer prices, and the collapse of the stock market. Tags: tarriffs Read more about The Truth About Steel/Aluminum Tariffs Resonates, Despite Scare Tactics Overtime Pay Announcement Just Another Stunt for Wolf Administration Governor Wolf got some election-year publicity last week with his decree that overtime pay should apply to tens of thousands of additional workers. Highlighting the stories was a catchy, but misleading phrase, the governor used in his announcement: “It’s simple,” he said, “if you work overtime, then you should get paid fairly for it.” Actually, it’s not all that simple. Read more about Overtime Pay Announcement Just Another Stunt for Wolf Administration Please Support Senate Bill 166 Submitted by Maura Donley on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 4:13pm George Washington famously stated, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” As government becomes larger and more powerful, President Washington’s insight becomes more critical. The inherent power of government should be recognized and treated as such; kept in check and harnessed. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance that government remains truly neutral and impartial as it conducts the public’s business. That is why the passage of Senate Bill 166 is so imperative. 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