Get Into Politics or Get Out of Business

ABC is committed to the merit philosophy of full and open competition and free enterprise.  ABC advocates policies that reflect the country’s basic principles of free market and equal opportunity; ensuring full and open competition based on merit; eliminating government waste, fraud and abuse; and, removing bureaucratic barriers toward improving training, safety, and quality in the workforce.

Contact your United States Senators
www.senate.gov

Contact your US House of Representatives
www.house.gov/writerep

Contact your State Senators

Ohio - Brown, Sherrod - (D - OH) 
713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2315
Web Form: brown.senate.gov/contact/

Kentucky - Bunning, Jim - (R - KY)  Class III
316 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 
(202) 224-4343
Web Form: bunning.senate.gov/

Indiana - Bayh, Evan - (D - IN)  Class III
131 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5623
Web Form: bayh.senate.gov/contact/email/

Contact your State House of Representatives
Ohio - www.house.state.oh.us
Kentucky - www.kentucky.gov
Indiana - www.in.gov/legislative/legislators

Key Issues include the following:

• Defeat of Employee Free Choice Act; Protect secret ballot elections
• Obtaining access and approval in every state for ABC’s Job Training and Apprenticeship programs
• Open federal fundraising for green jobs training to ABC Chapters
• Assuring use of Helpers on federal construction projects
• Keeping school construction issues free of federal, state, and local mandates
• Assuring Open Competition through prohibition of union-only project labor agreements
• Passage of THE FAIR ACT, which would enable small businesses to recover attorneys’ fees when they successfully defend themselves before the NLRB and OSHA
• Tax relief, including repeal of the estate tax and alternative minimum tax, and reduction in capital gains tax
• OSHA reform, to improve safety through education and incentives, not harassment
• Expand access to health insurance through Small Business Health Plans and tax incentives; oppose open-ended liability and additional coverage mandates
• Assure fair hiring practices through prohibition of unfair salting abuses under the NLRB
• Repeal of Davis-Bacon Act and state prevailing wage laws