Works for me...the prevailing wage is zero when you're unemployed, so you don't have to do the work for free; we'll just go out for COMPETITIVE BIDS, Union or Non-Union, and see who is the best bidder without interference.
Amen. In this economy, screw the “prevailing wage” crap. Remember when we were trying to rebuild N.O. after Katrina? No work could be done unless it was union work, or “prevailing wage”. Ridiculous. If people were willing to work at, gasp, “only” $20/hr instead of the $40/hr why would we allow the unions to hold everyone hostage? I’ve read Davis-Bacon. IIRC, it was designed to prevent black men from “undercutting” union workers. So the black worker was screwed out of being able to work at all, since unions wouldn’t allow blacks to join.