As unionization in the construction industry continues to decline, prevailing wage laws are becoming even more controversial. Only 13.1 percent of U.S. construction workers were union members in 2006, ...

PORT ANGELES — The cost of building affordable housing is influenced by many factors: limited funding, high interest rates, restrictive regulations and rising construction costs. But there’s one ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – In 1931, the federal Davis-Bacon Act mandated that wages paid to contracted workers on government construction projects be set at the prevailing level. That "prevailing wage" ...

PHOENIX — A Tucson ordinance requiring that workers on city contracts be paid “prevailing wages’’ is illegal, a judge ruled Monday. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bradley Astrowsky acknowledged ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — A state court has ruled against mandates imposed by the cities of Phoenix and Tucson. The legal battle was spearheaded by the Goldwater Institute on behalf of numerous local ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Anthony Villa, president and business manager of Local 290, the carpenters union for much of Long Island, and a board member of the North Atlantic States ...

State Sen. Dick Anderson (R-Lincoln City) and Rep. Vikki Breese Iverson (R-Prineville) wrote to Oregon Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson on April 8 following an Oregon Journalism Project story ...

The trickle-down strategies of the last several decades — defined by tax cuts for the wealthy — didn’t work and, in fact, led to stagnating incomes for everyone else. However, the Biden administration ...

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This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. A bill that would expand the scope of Oregon’s prevailing wage law is moving toward a floor vote with ...