Here is an email update received last night from IPLSA's director about the ongoing prevailing wage issue in Illinois.
Hopefully this will be defeated. I'm all for surveyors personally requiring professional compensation for their work, but why should the unions and the State be able to tell me how much we will work for. I hate this state. It already has one of the worst economies in the country, and it keeps pushing policies that punish businesses and hard working citizens :pissed: Wish I could just get out of here, and move somewhere like Texas. Sorry if this is too political.
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I have really good news to report to you.
Tonight, Cook County Circuit Judge David Atkins granted IPLSA's request for a stay of the Illinois Dept. of Labor's prevailing wage determinations for surveyors.
This means the prevailing wages established October 1, 2013 for survey worker titles are no longer in effect-- at least for the time being. HOWEVER, this is only the first in a series of hearings regarding the survey worker prevailing wage determinations.
The next hearing on the issue will be May 8.
Our attorney, Andy Martone, did great work for us. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.
Enjoy this good news to start your weekend!
Kim Robinson
Executive Director
Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association | info@iplsa.org
100 East Washington Street
Springfield, IL 62701
Too what jobs did the Prevailing Wage apply?
Boundary Surveys?
Design Surveys?
Construction Surveys?
etc.
Private work?
Commercial work?
Government work?
did it apply to the whole state?
Prevailing would apply to those jobs supported by federal funds. Also jobs funded by a municipality(Sp?) that declares that project is a prevailing wage project. I just got done working on one in southern cook county. A survey worker classification was supposed to get $35.75-$37.75 per hr. plus benefits. For a instrument man/rodman that is pretty good money. (p.s. I was getting paid more because I was licensed) and that is under a different set of rules. Beware of temp agencies that get you on a job like these they usually don't understand the rules dealing with prevailing wage. And most of the minority contractors do not pay prevailing wage because they know the General contractor won't turn them because they are afraid that they will be sued by the minority contractor for being (racist, or sexist). Also the Davis-Bacon Act would clarify the details that I failed to mentioned or messed up on.:-S
[sarcasm]Heaven forbid that a Survey Tech make as much as a plumber or even a (gasp)laborer....[/sarcasm]
This thread is edging closer and closer to politics...
My intent is discussing wages of surveyors, specifically comparing them to others that may be involved on the same projects, not politics.
I found the Cook County Prevailing Wage for April 2014
Should surveyors work themselves into the poor house?
> [sarcasm]Heaven forbid that a Survey Tech make as much as a plumber or even a (gasp)laborer....[/sarcasm]
:good:
Yeah ... what a great victory for techs who aspire to be surveyors. And we sometimes wonder why it's a "dying profession". Maybe it's because the bosses don't see the value in paying good people a fair wage, so the good people find another field to work in.
So, a "Survey Worker" wages are towards the bottom of the pay scale. That's a disgrace. I am not sure what IPLSA's motive is here. Are they trying to protect their member's prices of $400 lot surveys? God forbid if they would have to double their prices.
What is the educational requirements for obtaining a license in Illinois?
yes please stop whinning
Please stop crying like a little baby and take some personal responsibility.I do not want to hear anymore of your pathetic sniveling about not being to able to move to the promise land of TEXAS..... send us a postcard and tell us how wonderful everything is when you get there....BTW all this belongs in Politics
yes please stop whinning
I don't know about that Dane, i disagree with you. But maybe I'm blind . There's been many discussions on wages and prices on this board in the past and I bet there will be more.
P & R?
It's not P&R unless Wendell says it is.
Dave
P & R?
The thread got off to a bad start. If the OP had merely posted the informational item, it would have been fine, but the editorial that went along with it is hard to interpret as anything but political.
> [sarcasm]Heaven forbid that a Survey Tech make as much as a plumber or even a (gasp)laborer....[/sarcasm]
:good:
what Texas is not the promise land ?
Really Texas is not the promise land? Okay I am worng then.
