Brendan Cummins

Brendan Cummins - Counsel for Minnesota's Building and Trades Union
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The union's lawyer, Brendan Cummins, takes it one step further saying, "What prevailing wage does is reward quality, it rewards skill.And as the law assumes, higher paid workers are likely to have more skill."

Cummins said there's a link between pay and skill and it's called, "You get what you pay for."

The state, for its part, has been largely supportive.

Brendan Cummins for the Minnesota State Building & Construction Trades Council

"What the governor has done is bypass the Legislature, which makes policy, and he also bypassed the rule-making process," said Brendan Cummins, a Building and Construction Trades Council attorney who helped draft a letter to Commissioner of Administration Dana Badgerow about the order.
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If the labor group receives no response or the administration doesn't agree that the public should be heard, "we would consider proceeding with legal action," Cummins said.

"The most crucial thing here is the public's been screened out," he said.

The administration has not responded to the Dec. 7 letter, but Cummins said he expects an answer.