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> > > raise the salaries of the lowest-paid workers on infrastructure ranging from highways and bridges to battery plants, hydrogen production facilities, and semiconductor fabs
> it would be a step toward shrinking the wage gap between Northern states, which have generally higher worker protections, and the South and Southwest, where contractors are more hostile to unions and reliant on a migrant workforce. > >
what do you want to bet the courts will be hostile to it
Some will also be paid to be hostile.
can't argue with that
Hopefully they receive the prevailing payment amount.