prevailing wage

A petition campaign that collapsed in scandal last year is re-launching and some GOP leaders are concerned the issue could threaten Republican control…

Two more petition campaigns were given the go-ahead Thursday by a state elections panel to start collecting signatures, including one to legalize…

Pay rates for workers on publicly funded construction projects could be an issue this year in the Legislature. Bills to repeal Michigan’s 50-year-old law…

Flint city officials will require contractors pay a prevailing wage to workers who replace the city’s lead service lines. Though for a time, that wasn’t…

The Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments for and against local laws that require contractors on public projects to pay union-scale wages. The challenge…

Well, if you’ve been following the news from Lansing, it seems likely that the Legislature will soon vote to eliminate what’s known as "prevailing wage,"…

A group called Protecting Michigan Taxpayers wants to repeal Michigan's 50-year-old prevailing wage law.It recently turned in to the Secretary of State…

The Legislature has been discussing eliminating the prevailing wage law. The law requires contractors hired by government entities to pay workers at union…

This week in Michigan Politics, political analyst Jack Lessenberry talks about a new law affecting Michigan workers, a plan to fix the roads that…

One new study suggests repealing Michigan’s prevailing wage law is a bad idea.Smart Cities Prevail and the Midwest Economic Policy Institute — two groups…