Prevailing Wage Debate Goes On from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A 50-year-old state law requires that "prevailing wages," sometimes called union wages, be paid to workers on all public construction projects, such as schools and office buildings ... He said that when Kansas repealed its prevailing wage law, "Wages dropped by 11 percent, worker training programs declined by 38 percent [and] job site injuries rose by 19 percent."