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Workers: Sandy jobs should pay at local wage rates

Construction industry representatives Thursday urged state and federal officials to ensure Sandy-related cleanup and construction contracts pay local prevailing wages, not lower regional or national rates.

About 100 industry and union members, along with officials from the state, counties and local municipalities, who attended a U.S. Labor Department forum in Farmingdale also demanded that...

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