Cleveland, OH

Cleveland, OH: (Jun-04-07) In a bid to target contractors who do not pay union-scale prevailing wages required at many publicly financed construction projects, Ohio's Attorney General Marc Dann announced an enforcement program. The AG, a Democrat elected with strong union backing, focused his attention on issues important to organized labor. In the settlement he reached with sub contractors, he announced that $452,855 will be paid in wages owed to employees of 19 subcontractors and $113,755 in penalties. The settlement would resolve a state investigation of the $7 million state share of a $50 million project to remove industrial sediment from the Ashtabula River in far northeast Ohio. No individual payment breakdown was provided, but 117 employees are due money. Dann's staff estimated that workers who should have been paid about $28 hourly in prevailing wages, matching union contracts in the region; instead they were $15 to $18 hourly. The employee payments will be the responsibility of the parties to the settlement - the port agency and general contractors that subcontracted the work. The settlement will we handled by the Ohio Department of Commerce, which oversees the prevailing wage program. [BEACON JOURNAL: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PAYMENT]

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Published on Jun-5-07