The city of El Centro, for example, currently has the second-highest unemployment rate in the U.S. It is equally notable that the charter cities that funded this lawsuit because they oppose prevailing wage haven’t exactly produced a strong case to support their demand for lower construction wages. It is worth noting that many charter cities already comply with SB 7. It is disappointing - to put it mildly - that the cities that filed this frivolous lawsuit chose to spend untold taxpayer dollars on litigation, instead of investing those hard-earned tax dollars in economic growth and infrastructure modernization. Recently, a San Diego Superior Court judge twice upheld this law.
Yet some cities, including several in the San Diego area, filed a lawsuit to block SB 7, and the substantial economic and taxpayer benefits that come with it. And prevailing wage policies are proven to reduce the number of workers reliant on taxpayer-funded public assistance programs. Perhaps most importantly, the research shows prevailing wage saves taxpayers money - because the use of skilled, local workers increases productivity and reduces the risk of project delays, costly work-site accidents and change orders that too often come with fly-by-night firms from out of town that employ less skilled workers.
They also show prevailing wage policies produce more middle-class jobs for local workers. Studies show every dollar invested in a prevailing wage project generates $1.50 in local economic activity. senators (James Davis and Robert Bacon) came together to ensure competitive bidding on public construction, with an aim of growing local economies by ensuring that more of this work was done by local firms and local workers who were skilled in their fields. Prevailing wage laws have been around since the 1930s, when two Republican U.S. One of these, SB 7, was co-authored by a Democrat and a Republican, and would provide incentives to encourage more charter cities to pay prevailing wage on local construction projects by linking wage policy to the receipt of state funding on other projects. Last year, California state officials enacted other moderate measures aimed at growing the middle class.
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