Labor while cheap is still hard to find, especially on public-works projects where everyones papers need to be in tip top shape.
The work is hard, the pay is shit, nobody wants to do it if they have even a slightly better option.
The work is hard, the pay is shit, nobody wants to do it if they have even a slightly better option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Bacon_Act
(Back in the day, contractors were hiring black workers and bypassing the more expensive white-only unions. Davis Bacon was passed to fix the "problem" of free markets overcoming racism.)
> Thus it has, according to a study from the conservative Heartland Institute, calculated prevailing wages at 22 percent above BLS figures, forcing higher prices.
Well shit is relative, I guess.