Another political blog? - hardly
But someone just pointed out to me that the Davis-Bacon act has been suspended for federal contracts for Katrina cleanup. Davis-Bacon is the act that ensures contractors must pay the "prevailing wage", which usually means the relevant Union wage, to its employees when performing federal work. This has been suspended for 90 days so that Halliburton can hire people at minimum wage (surprised they haven't declared emergecy powers to suspend that) to do hazardous clean-up in contaminated conditions. Are there any provisions in this for Halliburton to bill the us, the taxpayers, any less based on its cost savings? Probably not, but even if there were, the deep erosion of principles of adequate compensation, fair conditions, job safety and basic human dignity would never justify accepting this deal.
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