State of Indiana Archives: on Jobs

Eric Holcomb: Pass pregnancy accommodations bill for women on the job

This is why I've come back to the legislature again to ask them to make Indiana the 31st state to pass a pregnancy accommodations bill. Many employers already do this on their own. So, let's get this done for the well-being and security of Indiana's current and future working mothers.

Eric Holcomb: Mandated teachers be informed of non-union options

Eric Holcomb: Yes. Touted faster union job growth in Indiana than in Illinois, which is a non-right-to-work state. (Claim supported and opposed.) Signed into law bill mandating that teachers be informed of non-union options.

Woody Myers: No. As governor, would repeal the state's right-to-work legislation and use executive orders to support worker unions.

Eric Holcomb: When minimum wage is raised, cost is passed to consumers

Eric Holcomb: No. Would rather create livable-wage opportunities. "When people start to raise the minimum wage that cost is just passed on to the consumer."

Woody Myers: Yes. "A fair minimum wage is fundamental to a fair social/economic system. Will support legislation that increases the state's minimum wage."

Woody Myers: Would repeal the state's right-to-work law

Woody Myers: No. As governor, would repeal the state's right-to-work legislation and use executive orders to support worker unions.

Eric Holcomb: Yes. Touted faster union job growth in Indiana than in Illinois, which is a non-right-to-work state. (Claim supported and opposed.) Signed into law bill mandating that teachers be informed of non-union options.

Woody Myers: Would support increasing state's minimum wage

Woody Myers: Yes. "A fair minimum wage is fundamental to a fair social/economic system. Will support legislation that increases the state's minimum wage."

Eric Holcomb: No. Would rather create livable-wage opportunities. "When people start to raise the minimum wage that cost is just passed on to the consumer."

Woody Myers: Diversify our economy, improve business environment

I'll immediately work to diversify our economy so we're less susceptible to economic downturns and labor force disruptions. I'll implement policies to improve our business environment, with a focus on recruiting businesses that bring good-paying jobs to all parts of the state and supporting existing businesses with retention policies that help them remain competitive.

Woody Myers: We deserve best schools, health care, state creating jobs

Mike Braun: 2015: opposed increasing Indiana minimum wage to $10.10

Braun: Likely no. In 2015 opposed increasing Indiana minimum wage to $10.10.

Donnelly: Yes. Voted to increase from $7.25 to $10.10, opposed raising to $15.00.

Mike Braun: Cut regulations and red tape and businesses will create jobs

We need a tax code that is simple and fair. We must repeal Obamacare, not repair it, to rein in costs and expand healthcare options. And we must ensure that American jobs are filled by American workers, not outsourced to other countries or given to illegal immigrants.

Andrew Straw: In recessions, increase money supply to create jobs

I support job creation programs for people with disabilities and more accommodation for disabled people in the federal workforce. Those with disabilities from being poisoned by the military should never, ever have live in poverty.

Andrew Straw: Visas for high-wage jobs; don't export jobs via trade

I believe Congress, the Senate, should penalize those who invest overseas and reward those who bring investment dollars back to the USA. The exact tax code changes for that can be negotiated.

Eric Holcomb: Five pillars: 21st century workforce is magnet for jobs

• ONE: Cultivate a strong and diverse economy to ensure that Indiana remains a magnet for jobs
• TWO: Fund a long-term roads and bridges plan that takes the greatest advantage of our location
• THREE: Develop a 21st century skilled and ready workforce
• FOUR: Attack the drug epidemic, and
• FIVE: Provide great government service at a great value to taxpayers.

Eddie Melton: Support organized labor and good-paying jobs

Melton's website highlighted the following campaign themes:
• Every Resident Deserves Access to Good Paying Jobs
• As an integral part of a thriving economy, Eddie will continue to be an advocate for organized labor, as he deeply believes in its value as a product of a household where both his mother and step-father were active members of their local unions.

John Gregg: Focus on living-wage jobs, not on social issues

The need to "work with local government rather than against it" is something Gregg believes is necessary to strengthen Indiana for the future. "We need to quit hamstringing local government and good things will fall into place," he suggested.

"Sadly, under Mike Pence, Indiana has been given a bad name. While working Hoosiers are falling further and further behind, he's been focused on social issues and telling people how they should live their lives. That's not the business of a governor or any government."

Richard Mourdock: Focus on cutting the deficit and creating jobs

Lugar characterized himself as a loyal and knowledgeable public servant. Lugar revealed his vulnerability in an election season that hasn't been all that friendly to incumbents.

Analysts watching this race portray it as a referendum on the incumbent and a call for a fresh GOP face in the upper chamber.

Mitch Daniels: Support Right to Work and Indiana will add jobs faster

The idea, that no worker should be forced to pay union dues as a condition of keeping a job, is simple, and just. But the benefits in new jobs would be large: a third or more of growing or relocating businesses will not consider a state that does not provide workers this protection. Almost half our fellow states have right to work laws. As a group, they are adding jobs faster, growing worker income faster, and enjoying lower unemployment rates than those of us without a law.

Among the minority favoring the status quo, passion on this issue is strong, and I respect that. I did not come lightly, or quickly, to the stance I take now. If this proposal limited in any way the right to organize, I would not support it. But we just cannot go on missing out on the middle class jobs our state needs, just because of this one issue.