Lest you forget that all of these battles over the value and benefit of Davis-Bacon Construction jobs has been going on forever, we thought it would be worthwhile to post this little ditty from 1983. It’s worth a read if only because it’s a nice reminder that the battle over union workers and government wages for public works projects (i.e. the Davis-Bacon Act) is nothing new. These fights – with these same arguments – have been around for years. How loud each side hollers, and how much ink they get when they do, is the only thing that has changed…