and make em work fer nuthin as well..

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Fraggle, dear, I usually agree with you but the Davis-Bacon Act is a crock!

 

For example, on a rez we got a grant to put up fencing. Just your generic 5

strand barb to keep out the neighbors cows. Doesn't take an Einstein or

anyone with any skills to dig post holes and pound fence staples. Clearly a

minimum wage job. NOT!

 

Under Davis-Bacon, the " prevailing " wage was over $17.00/hr in 1995! On

another job the " prevailing " wage for a framing carpenter was $25/hr. For

someone to paint the outside of the community center it was $35/hr.

 

I don't know where it prevailed from but it sure wasn't the going rate to

pay any local contractors UNLESS they were under D-B!

 

Davis-Bacon is every bit as bad as the old $200 screw driver scams!

 

Lynda

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" fraggle " <EBbrewpunx

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Friday, September 09, 2005 11:39 AM

and make em work fer nuthin as well..

 

 

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> Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina

> President signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below

> prevailing wage in affected areas.

> September 9, 2005: 11:43 AM EDT

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> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush issued an executive order

> Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of

> Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.

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> In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused " a

> national emergency " that permits him to take such action under the

> 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana

> and Mississippi.

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> The Davis-Bacon law requires federal contractors to pay workers at

> least the prevailing wages in the area where the work is conducted.

> It applies to federally funded construction projects such as

> highways and bridges.

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> Bush's executive order suspends the requirements of the Davis-Bacon

> law for designated areas hit by the storm.

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> Bush's action came as the federal government moved to provide

> billions of dollars in aid, and drew rebukes from two of organized

> labor's biggest friends in Congress, Rep. George Miller of

> California and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, both Democrats.

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> War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.

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