Forcing non-profits out of business because unions have a chokehold on public works under an expanded definition of the term? Stoooopid. Really dumb. Don't do it:
The original wage law was designed to protect union contractors from being underbid on public projects by firms using less expensive, nonunion labor. But the broader application carried the concept to an entirely new level.
Labor unions started filing complaints about local governments and nonprofit groups using volunteers on public projects. The first to surface was in Redding, where college students were given class credit instead of pay when they helped a local nonprofit group clear a brush-choked streambed. A state labor agency fined the group for violations of labor laws.
Ugh! Man. I'm sure there's more to this story than the columnist cobbles together to fit in limited column inches. But really, ugh. So unions got their way with expanded definitions of public works and then continue to pound the point home over this sort of project.
As Seth and Amy would say - Really?!
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