Post by Logan on Feb 6, 2016 0:45:58 GMT -6
FRANKFORT -- In a room filled with union workers, a House committee on Thursday killed a bill to exempt school and university construction projects from Kentucky’s prevailing wage law.
Each time a member of the House Labor and Industry Committee cast a “no” vote on Senate Bill 7, loud applause from the union workers followed.
The sponsor of the measure, Sen. Wil Schroder, R-Wilder, said after his bill was defeated on a 14-6 vote that he would bring it back next year.
“There will be a different makeup of the committee,” he said.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article58435488.html
Each time a member of the House Labor and Industry Committee cast a “no” vote on Senate Bill 7, loud applause from the union workers followed.
The sponsor of the measure, Sen. Wil Schroder, R-Wilder, said after his bill was defeated on a 14-6 vote that he would bring it back next year.
“There will be a different makeup of the committee,” he said.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article58435488.html