URGENT: Your Voice Is Needed to Protect Workers in West St. Paul

Please click the link below to send your email to West Saint Paul City Council.  Be sure to include your name and address to show you’re a concerned taxpayer who demands accountability.

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Last month, the City of West St. Paul made a deeply concerning decision: they voted to create an exemption to prevailing wage requirements on publicly funded projects. Despite strong opposition from IBEW 110, the measure passed in a narrow 3-4 vote—with the mayor casting the deciding vote.

Any attack on prevailing wage is an attack on the working men and women who build our communities.

Now, the stakes are even higher.

The city is preparing to vote on a prevailing wage exemption for a massive development at the old YMCA site at 150 Thompson Avenue—a project that includes over 400 housing units and commercial space. If approved, this exemption will divert your hard-earned tax dollars away from local workers and into the pockets of a developer handpicked by the city.

This is unacceptable.

We need you to act NOW. Send an email to the City Council and the Mayor demanding they vote NO on this exemption. Tell them you want your tax dollars to support projects that are built by workers earning fair, livable wages—not by out-of-town contractors who will take their profits elsewhere.

The non-union contractor requesting this exemption is based in rural Minnesota. Their workers won’t spend their paychecks in West St. Paul. They won’t contribute to our local economy. They won’t build our community.

West St. Paul deserves better. You deserve better.

Time is critical. Make your voice heard today.

Respectfully,

Brian Winkelaar
Business Representative
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 110