By Doug Cunningham

Katrina has taken everything from them and the Bush administration is now taking away the promise of jobs with good wages for workers who will rebuild the devastated gulf region. An executive order from Bush September 8th waives the Davis-Bacon Act - a law that guarantees the prevailing wage rate for construction jobs contracted by the federal government. The AFL-CIO wants Congress to reverse the Bush order. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of wage protection for workers is nothing less than profiteering.
The AFL-CIO says this amounts to legalized looting of worker wages as they struggle to clean up toxic waste and rebuild their communities across the gulf region.