Letter: Davis-Bacon decision burdens laborers

Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 | 9:10 a.m.

The Davis-Bacon Act assures that contractors and other construction types must pay prevailing wages for doing federally sponsored work. The prevailing wage for Louisiana has been $9 an hour, but now, because of this suspension, workers won't even have to be paid this much.

How can these victims of Katrina reorganize their lives when being paid such paltry wages? What a cruel thing for President Bush, and the Republicans in Congress who sponsored this suspension, to do in placing this new burden on these poor, suffering people.

Richard J. Mundy Las Vegas

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