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Labor's Edge Articles by Charlie Costello
3/16/10
Taking a Stand Against the Assault on Prevailing Wage
by Charlie Costello
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) sent out a notice in October about a prevailing wage survey of all construction employers in California’s 18 counties in the Central Valley. There has never been a survey conducted of this size and scope in the history of the state, and it is just the beginning of what will become a full-blown frontal assault on workers’ wages.