Rep. Viriginia Fox wants to kill prevailing wage for Federal projects.

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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., has introduced legislation to stretch the limited funds available to the Highway Trust Fund by exempting it from what she considers the Davis-Bacon Act’s “outdated, wasteful labor requirements” for federal-aid highway and public transportation projects, according to a press release from her D.C. office.


“With Highway Trust Fund deficits expected to hit $157 billion by 2024, it makes sense to exempt the fund from Davis-Bacon’s expensive and overly burdensome wage requirements,” Foxx said. “Big Labor should not continue to use this Depression-era legislation as a shield to line its own pockets at the expense of non-union workers and taxpayers.”


The Davis-Bacon Act, which became law in 1931, requires federal contractors and subcontractors to pay the local prevailing wage for construction projects on which the federal government is a party. For decades, it has been driving up the cost of federal highway projects by mandating artificially high wages, according to Sheridan Watson, Foxx’s communications director.

http://jeffersonpost.com/news/news/152487818/Foxx-introduces-bill-to-reduce-costs-associated-with-federal-construction-projects

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1. Maybe if we could tie the Congressional pay to the minimum wage they might have a change in attitude

They got theirs and the rest of us aren't supposed to get a chance to get ours?
The wrong people are making the rules.

[Enthusiast]

2. They will leave no stone unturned in their quest to hurt the working class.

[ND-Dem]

3. They've got a raft of people working on it full time for good pay.