4-30-15 prevailing wage-wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he doesn’t have the votes to repeal prevailing wage but will look to reform it.  Vos says he supports a full repeal of prevailing wage but it’s likely that lawmakers will insert changes to prevailing wage law into Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. He did not elaborate.  Under current Wisconsin law, workers on state or local public works projects or on highway projects must be paid wages equivalent to wages paid for similar projects.  A Republican bill introduced in February would end that requirement and block local governments from enacting their own prevailing wage laws or ordinances.