Word: deshong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflationary effects of Davis-Bacon have been particularly painful to the housing industry, which is only 25% unionized because it consists largely of small firms. "Our people finally got desperate about the Davis-Bacon problem," says Herbert DeShong, executive vice president of the Dallas builders' association. After two years of collecting figures from payroll records, DeShong was able to convince the Labor Department that two wage patterns prevailed. Today, the Davis-Bacon rate for the mostly nonunion carpenters on residential projects in Dallas County is $4.50 an hour, while the generally unionized carpenters on big commercial projects...