Ohio schools panel rejects union-scale wages

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By Ann Sanner, Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amid a fight over union rights in Ohio, the state panel that controls millions of dollars in school construction voted Thursday to no longer support union-scale wage requirements on job sites.

Tim Keen, the chairman of the Ohio School Facilities Commission, said the move was aimed at "making our scarce dollars for school construction go just as far as possible."

Keen, the governor's budget director who heads the seven-member commission, said he did not know how much the state could save from the move. Still, he said, "I think any time you take steps to limit the pool of bidders for projects, you are going to find that you are paying more than you otherwise would."

Two of the three voting members on the commission passed a resolution that says the panel will reject any bids that include a prevailing-wage requirement or the union-friendly project labor agreements.

Read more: http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=cincinnati&sParam=35878585.story

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FULL story at link.

[LiberalFighter]

1. How much will the local economy suffer because those dollars don't flow over and over?

[xchrom]

2. ...

:mad:

[Historic NY]

3. If they use Federal Funds its required Davis–Bacon Act....

imagine 2 Republicans authored the bill too.

[fatbuckel]

4. By voting for Republicans you voted for Republicans. By not voting, you voted for Republicans.

By not voting Democrat to show your displeasure,you voted Republican.Now take your medicine or DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

[OnyxCollie]

7. If faced with the choice of voting for a republican

or voting for a Democrat who acts like a republican, voters will choose the republican every time.

[ixion]

12. And by voting for Democrats you're voting to uphold Republican policies

so what's your point?

If you think there's a difference -- a REAL difference -- between the two parties, you're sorely mistaken.

[AndyTiedye]

13. The Repiglickins Want to Turn the USA into Jesusland and Restart the Crusades

That is a pretty big difference.

[ixion]

14. Indeed. Then why does the Democratic leadership bend over backward to

enable such a ridiculous agenda?

[sarcasmo]

5. Once the rich crush unions like they are setting out to do, we are officially a third world country.

[wilt the stilt]

6. Can we say undocumented workers

If a non union outfit is chosen I want to see the papers on the workers. Republicans love illegals because it suppresses wages.

[groundloop]

9. How right you are. In Georgia ....

our new governor campaigned hard on the immigration issue. Today there's a story in the paper that indicates he may be backing down because of pressure from business leaders.

[Doremus]

15. In the building trades you'll find scads of folks willing to work for sub-union wages,

let's not hang it all on illegals.

The state is opening the doors to untrained, unskilled workers willing to work for $10-12/hr. You can't really blame a desperate soul looking for work, but big construction jobs are the last place you send untrained labor, unless you consider your workers expendable commodities. Of course that describes fatcat pukes to a tee. :mad:

This is just one more rung in the fast race to the bottom.

[Botany]

8. These people not only want to kill teachers' unions but public eduction too

They are for home schooling and private christian schools too.

[blackspade]

10. Unreal.

Why do rethugs hate American workers so much?
They seem to have no problem with their corporate buddies making billions off of the public, but heaven forbid a guy digging a ditch make a living wage.
Sickening.

[Enthusiast]

16. It's high time that their

behavior is known for the anti-Americanism that it is.

[callous taoboy]

11. Duct tape and cardboard are good classroom building materials.

But you'll need to use low-end duct tape to, you know, stretch those dollars.