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Small group has big impact on contractors' wages - In Business Las Vegas
Steve Holloway, executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors Las Vegas Chapter, said the prevailing wage system is fair.

'I do think it's fair,' he said. 'Both non-union and union contractors are surveyed. I do think probably a greater percentage of union contractors respond to those surveys than do the non-union contractors, but that's their choice.'

Holloway said because the surveys are voluntary, many contractors don't turn them in because there's no one pressuring them to do so. However, he said unions play a role in getting union contractors to turn them in.

'I think a lot of them are suspicious of the system and there's no one there to put any pressure on them to do it,' he said referring to nonunion contractors, 'whereas with the union contractors the unions will ask them and help them submit the information.'

Jim Sala, director of organizing in Nevada for the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, said the reason union wages often prevail is because the majority of contractors in Southern Nevada are unionized.

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