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While a final decision is still up to the Board of State Canvassers, a group opposing an effort to repeal Michigan’s prevailing wage law says the effort to collect signatures for a ballot proposal, has fallen short.
The claim is disputed by the group Protecting Michigan Taxpayers, which is pushing for repeal.
Despite that Protect Michigan Jobs, which supports the current law, has filed a challenge to the petition the group says shows barely half of the 388-thousand signatures collected by the group Protecting Michigan Taxpayers, were valid.
PMJ also wants an investigation, as it charges that many signatures are duplicates.
The current prevailing wage law requires construction firms to pay union-scale wages on government projects like road repair and school building construction.
The Board of State Canvassers meets next week.
