Comments on: Labor Wins ‘Prevailing Wages’ in Stimulus

By: Stimulus Packages Don’t Work; Obama’s $800 Billion Stimulus Will Shrink the Economy | OpenMarket.org

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:29:12 +0000

[...] stimulus package imposes on state governments wasteful racial set-asides and union-backed prevailing-wage requirements. The prevailing-wage requirements will cost $17 billion. Racial set-asides are very [...]

By: Recession Ends in France, Without Massive and Costly U.S.-Style Stimulus Package | OpenMarket.org

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:24:57 +0000

[...] stimulus package also imposes on states racial set-aside requirements and prevailing-wage requirements, which increase the cost to taxpayers of government contracts. The prevailing-wage requirements [...]

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By: The Infrastructurist | April’s Headlines

The Infrastructurist | April’s Headlines — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:09:28 +0000

[...] LaHood is preparing to expand guidelines that would guarantee a “prevailing wage” to hundreds of thousands of construction workers hired for stimulus projects. (Washington [...]

By: David Baer

David Baer — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:24:47 +0000

How are you helping people by suggesting they work for less than the area standard for their craft. These rates are based on highly qualififed electricians who are together in their demand for compensation in return for their skills. Also, with their fringe benefits, they and their families are not a burden on society, which I am sure you bitch about somewhere else on the internet.
You idiots can't have it both ways. By the way, not only am I am Union Electrician, but I am an fully trained Apprenticeship Instructor, and Union Organizer. I am fully open, what do you do? How much do you make? Where are you coming from?

By: David Baer

David Baer — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:24:47 +0000

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:55:22 +0000

Don't assume all union workers are well trained and all non-union workers are not. Construction codes, licensing, permiting, and inspections are put in place to protect the consumer. A union card is NOT a license nor does it prove competance. Non-union construction workers account for 80 to 85% of all construction work completed. Many union contractors only survive on prevailing wage work because they simply aren't competetive in the private market place…..So all this money getting pumped into the economy, at the expense of the taxpayer (most of which are not union members) will be spent in a very inefficient way.

By: Cassandra.Says

Cassandra.Says — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:10:24 +0000

So did your teacher give to charity the money and the value of benefits the union obtained negotiating on her behalf?

By: Construction Workers on “stimulus” projects will receive prevailing wages | Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. Blog

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:06:32 +0000

[...] an article in the Washington Independent written by Jefferson Morley on [...]