Ohio Schools Panel Rejects Union-Scale Wages

[The Straight Story]

Ohio Schools Panel Rejects Union-Scale Wages

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.


http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/feb/25/ohio-schools-panel-rejects-union-scale-wages-ar-406334/

[Poboy]

1. Race to the bottom. Shitty construction and half-assed execution in our future...

'the panel will reject any bids that include a prevailing-wage requirement or the union-friendly project labor agreements.'

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. They can use the money they save to buy hard hats for the kids

to shield them from falling debris.

[rucky]

3. To all my sparsely-employed friends who work in construction

your lives just got even more difficult. :cry:

[NEOhiodemocrat]

4. That is terrible

"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." so I take it this means they refuse these bids even if they are lower? And they will deny this is a union killing measure?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Won't be long and everyone will be working for scab labor scale

Becoming a nation of scabs.

Geebuz.

Don

[mmonk]

6. As someone who used to run a school system warehouse and

requisitioned out supplies to people in maintenance, when the system decided to outsource that work to avoid paying for employees with benefits, it turned out to be more expensive. The money was going to their bosses. They will pay one way or the other and this is political, not budgeting.

[Poboy]

7. .

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. There may be some federal and state issues with that