Washington Democrats delivered for workers in high hazard facilities by moving HB 1173 out of the Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce with a do pass recommendation. Sponsored by Rep. Dan Bronoske (D-Lakewood) the bill requires workers at refineries and petrochemical manufacturing facilities be paid the correct wage for their job classification.
“These are dangerous jobs that keep our economy moving,” said Rep. Bronoske. “These workers should be fairly compensated.”
Classification of these occupations are specific to the trade for the work being performed. Apprentices who are not yet a registered apprentice or skilled journeyperson, must be considered a skilled journeyperson for the wage being owed to the worker.
“The current system is being interpreted in such a way that misclassifies workers and does not pay them appropriately.” said Rep. Bronoske. “This legislation is a big step in the right direction.
The bill moves on to the Senate Rules Committee for consideration.
Typical bill put forth by Bronoske, Leavitt, or Nobles. They think that they are helping us all, but have no idea of the consequences of their policies. They simply want to control private enterprise, which is what our legislature moves closer toward each year.
Why people continue to vote for these dolts, I will never fully understand. It’s interesting that they throw the national political group as a totalitarian fascist, when they are actively working to make our society communist.
In case anybody (including fascists & communists) wants to cut to the chase:
Summary of Bill:
A skilled journeyperson in a building or construction trade working for a petroleum refining or petrochemical manufacturing contractor or subcontractor must be paid at least a rate consistent with the prevailing wage in the applicable occupation and geographic area.
“Paid the correct wage for their job classification”? In other words, what these liberal legislators are doing is imposing prevailing wage regulations on private sector work. What will be the next “high hazard” facility designation these legislators target for control?
This should be seen for exactly what it is, another favor from liberal legislators to their labor union supporters.
Fascism: Privately owned but government controlled.
Quite different from what the democrat left would lead us to believe, as they throw that label around rather loosely.
A couple of decades ago the left was hard at work comparing public sector pay to private sector pay, screaming that there was an unfair imbalance.
Of course they never took into account the enormous benefit package that they were enjoying at our expense, and so they prevailed in the enrichment scheme.
Now that government has grown itself to the point of unsustainability, what do they insist on doing? Well, that would be to raise taxes on the private sector (the rest of us) once again – of course!
Have any of our local representatives spent any meaningful time in the private sector?
Their experience seems rather “cradle to grave” to me.
Until these “leaders” start respecting our Constitutional rights instead of prioritizing left-wing dogma, it’s hard to take them seriously.
I think the oil and gas industry can figure out how much they have to pay in order to keep a good employee around, without Hunter Biden, er I mean Mr Bronoske’s involvement.
I agree it seems popular to throw labels around loosely. So maybe this is a better treatment of “fascism”:
Fascism is a far-right form of government. They are usually totalitarian one-party states which prey on angry and desperate individuals to make them unite behind a strong man who promises them a utopia and revenge on those who may have harmed them.
Mussolini invented fascism in Italy in the late 1910s. He introduced a complete dictatorship in the mid-1920s, by eliminating all other parties and changing the electoral law to make sure his Fascist party got the most seats.
Large fascist countries of the 20th century include Italy under Benito Mussolini, Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler’s nazism, and Spain under Francisco Franco.
“Fascism” remains awkward and arbitrary.
Just say “Dictator” – one-man rule.
There will always be a minority of people, whoever they are, who can lead the masses more effectively than the whole of a mob.
President Trump has amassed the most diverse and competent cabinet that I’ve ever seen, yet the left insists on labeling him a fascist.
For crying out loud, they are rooting out more corruption-rot than anyone imagined. We’re talking people in elected positions who lied to us and enriched themselves, then covered it up.
If it takes a strong man to root out that problem and put us on a sound fiscal path, then that’s exactly what we need.