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Union representatives urge board to require union contractors for planned solar-panel removal; board confirms prevailing wage requirements
Summary
A Middlesex County Building Trades representative warned the board about safety risks in removing roughly 1,450 solar panels and urged keeping a union contractor; administrators said the public bidding package requires compliance with New Jersey prevailing-wage rules and that Echo Electric had not bid on the contract.
During public comment at the Piscataway Township Board of Education meeting, Ed Soulfield of the Middlesex County Building Trades urged the board to keep union contractors on a proposed removal of roughly 1,450 solar panels at the high school. Soulfield told the board that panels are ‘‘hot’’ — carrying 20–60 volts from the moment they are unpacked — and argued that nonunion low bidders lacked training and safety practices for that work.
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