Industry's advocacy voice grows with buying groups
Last month, nearly 50 members of WIT & Co., representing 36 small, family-run and independent businesses descended upon Capitol Hill as lawmakers returned to Washington with a packed agenda.
Participants discussed their concerns over the Department of Labor’s proposed changes to overtime exemptions, the challenges of showrooms that are continually disadvantaged by unequal sales-tax treatment and various health-care provisions that Congress was poised to take up this fall.