Prevailing Wage Rat Buried in Budget Bill Will Cost Connecticut Jobs

Prevailing Wage Rat Buried in Budget Bill Will Cost Connecticut Jobs

Buried on page 200 of Connecticut’s nearly 700-page state budget is a provision lawmakers couldn’t pass on its own merit: a union-backed expansion of prevailing wage laws that forces small fabrication shops across Connecticut to pay inflated union-level wages for off-site work.  The original bill (S.B. 1370) was amended in a way that forced it to be transferred to the Appropriations Committee and ultimately never received a vote in either chambe…