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March 30, 2015 By SEO Admin

Lawmakers eye end to state's prevailing wage laws

Republican legislators are planning to propose legislation that would eliminate an 80-year-old state of Wisconsin policy that calls for workers on state building and road projects to be paid a prevailing wage set by state standards.

Eliminating the rule will lower wages for workers and, by extension, lower the costs of such contracts to the state. Other states in the Midwest controlled by Republican legislators are considering laws that would overturn similar policies. The laws, purportedly, prevent…