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...most big cities, the suspension will have little if any effect. In rural areas and in cities of the South, Southwest and parts of the Midwest, where open-shop building is more common, some contractors may be able to cut their prices ever so slightly for future projects. Big nonunion contractors may now begin bidding on federal projects, but a complicating factor is the existence of "baby Davis-Bacon" laws in 37 states. Much Government-aided construction-schools, highways, hospitals-is partly state-financed, and unions will certainly try to use the state laws to preserve the status...
...desperate about the Davis-Bacon problem," says Herbert DeShong, executive vice president of the Dallas builders' association. After two years of collecting figures from payroll records, DeShong was able to convince the Labor Department that two wage patterns prevailed. Today, the Davis-Bacon rate for the mostly nonunion carpenters on residential projects in Dallas County is $4.50 an hour, while the generally unionized carpenters on big commercial projects...
...were impressed with the size of our mandate from the student body," he added, "and we will work until nonunion lettuce is eliminated from Harvard. We hope in negotiations meetings in the next few days to reach this goal...
About ten SDS members approached Woodcock after the speech, demanding a more militant stand by the union leadership. The SDS challenged the union decision not to maintain picket lines at GM's Framingham plant. Nonunion employees are continuing to work for the corporation at Framingham and other GM plants during the strike...
Still, some basic factors will moderate future price boosts. Tough fiscal-monetary policy has removed excess demand from the nation's economy, and rising unemployment will gradually check labor-cost inflation. Wage increases will diminish, at least for nonunion men, because companies are no longer avidly competing for scarce labor. Productivity will go up as employers lay off the extra workers whom they have been hoarding and remaining workers start to hustle to avoid being laid off themselves...