I get the impression the author is trying to represent this as a Michigan problem. The Davis-Bacon Act is a federal law and applies everywhere. Davis-Bacon is one of the major totems of the left. When Bush temporarily suspended Davis-Bacon for the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina the left went berserk and started filing lawsuits.
Davis-Bacon has been a major burr in my butt for a long time. Making the taxpayer pay inflated labor costs for every construction project- every road, every sewer, every school, every courthouse - is insane, given the chronic budget deficits of state, local and federal governments. It is nothing buta subsidy for unions companies who couldn’t win a contract without it. If you want to fix our crumbling infrastructure, I would start by getting rid of Davis-Bacon.