Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases for and against the repeal--a YES vote eliminates the wage, a NO vote maintains it--are fairly simple. It is a classic battle between big business and organized labor. Advocates of the repeal argue that the prevailing wage wastes taxpayer dollars by requiring artificially high wages on public projects. "The prevailing wage law creates a tremendous drag on local and town budgets," said Charlie Yelen, a spokesperson for the pro-repeal Fair Wage Committee. "Cities and towns can't afford to pay a wage mandated by the state...
Many of the arguments made by the pro-repeal movement are misleading and inaccurate. Despite claims by the Fair Wage Committee, the current law does not establish a state-wide mandate on how much construction workers should be paid; the hourly wage rate is based on local private contracting costs with union labor and can vary across the state...
...point of the proposed constitutional changes is not to divide the house, nor is it to somehow "get" those who voted originally to purchase the television. Rather, it is an attempt to make Currier's house committee constitution more fair. The house should always know what issues will be discussed in house committee meetings, and if an extremely unpopular measure is passed, the members of the house should have some recourse. Finally, funds should not be given to private groups or suites that are not open to all residents of the house unless an overwhelming majority of the house...
...just does not understand that's not how it works...that it takes up to 10 years to develop and deploy a system like this," Bush said. "He doesn't understand that we can't give away our best cards and then sit down and expect to negotiate a fair treaty with the Soviets...
...bothered throughout, especially since the two Blacks on the panel were excused because they had been robbed before. I did not feel that it was fair for a Black man to be answerable to 12 white jurors and a white judge. How could the result be much different from the way things worked in the South, where for a long time. Blacks were purposely excluded from juries...