Powerful labor leader tells lawmakers to keep hands off prevailing wage laws

Building trades appear to have again blocked efforts to speed the development of affordable housing and child care facilities.

 

By Nigel Jaquiss

Oregon Journalism Project

Senate Bill 1566 would “exempt certain projects from the requirement to pay a prevailing rate of wage.”
— Nigel Jaquiss photo

Few pieces of legislation in the current session have generated more substantive disagreement than Senate Bill 1566, which would clarify and tweak existing prevailing wage laws in…

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