Business groups question proposed labor rules

The ordinance requires companies bidding on projects receiving city tax subsidies of more than $250,000 to pay prevailing wages.

Courier-Journal

Chamber rips proposed labor ordinance

Prevailing wages and benefits, as established for each profession or trade, must be paid.

Courier-Journal

Promise breakers and Kool-Aid drinkers

Imagine what Kentucky schools could have done with that money. If prevailing-wage requirements had not been forced on school districts all these years, schools could have been repaired and Kentucky’s students could have received a better education.

The Times Tribune

How to Save $40 Billion

President Obama said in his Inaugural Address yesterday that government must spend to rebuild roads and bridges, but that those "who manage the public's dollars" must also "spend wisely" and "reform bad habits." With that ambition in mind, here's an idea to save tens of billions of taxpayer dollars in the months ahead: Repeal Davis-Bacon superminimum wage requirements for construction projects.

The Wall Street Journal

Prevailing wage law should be among first to go

At a time when the state is facing a monumental budget crisis, it’s mindboggling to consider that there’s a law on the books that costs taxpayers millions extra for public construction projects.

The News Tribune