Word: bidness
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...Harvard lost three big regional games (Dartmouth, Connecticut, Hartwick) and tied Boston University. You doubt that the Crimson will receive an NCAA Tournament bid...
...requires state and local governments to pay prevailing local wages--based on union rates--for all construction and public works projects. The statute was created to prevent construction companies from submitting low bids to communities at the expense of employees' wages. With costs generally fixed on supplies and equipment, the simplest method to win a contract was to submit a low bid by slashing employee wages...
Opponents of the repeal contend that taxpayers will gain nothing from voting yes, and that the measure would simply cut wages and increase profits for the contractors. The prevailing wage, they contend, insures that quality work is provided on public projects by preventing communities from automatically accepting the lowest bid...
...most successful tactic of the pro-repeal campaign has been to argue that eliminating the wage would contribute to lower construction costs and help create lower municipal tax rates. But according to the pro-wage Committee for Quality of Life, the average cost of labor on a construction bid is only 15 to 20 percent. If the prevailing wage were repealed, they claim, and wages were cut by as much as 20 percent, the overall decrease in the price of the project to a community would be as little as 2 to 3 percent...
Additionally, the tendency of the antiwage forces to focus on low-bid construction projects disguises the far more important issue of quality work on publicly-funded projects. An effort by communities to save money by accepting the lowest bid may lead to further costs for repairs and maintenance that would have been unnecessary with more skilled (and, yes, more expensive) labor...