Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else

Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by benjohnson on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:54PM (#24972404)

If there’s Federal money involved, most of it does trickle down to the worker.

Each contractor has to report what they paid to each employee so that nobody is screwed. The idea was that the government didn’t want jobs to be done by cheap labor and they set a wage floor that corresponds to local union labor rates.

The wage difference can be quite drastic - floggers pay jumps from $15 Pernod to about $32 per hour where I live.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis–Bacon_Act_of_1931

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by csours on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:11PM (#24972621)

Pernod?

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by anon84598 on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:34PM (#24972910)

I assume it should have been "per hour" but autocorrect got creative

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by kingofpandora on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:00PM (#24973288)

per hour

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by BurningFrog on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:43PM (#24975153)

Yeah, but the worker has to be a union member, and they don't let random people join.

> The idea was that the government didn’t want jobs to be done by cheap labor

To be more specific, they didn't want the jobs to go to black workers.

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