Ohio County Requires Prevailing Wages in Road Use Maintenance Agreements
After being lobbied by the Laborers International Union, the Jefferson County commissioners signed a road use maintenance agreement (RUMA) with Enterprise Liquids Pipeline that requires contractors to pay prevailing wages to repair county and township roads used during the construction of a pipeline across the county. County Engineer James Branagan indicated that, pursuant to a recent Ohio attorney general opinion addressing counties entering into RUMAs with oil and gas companies, the prevailing wage requirement will be included in all Jefferson County RUMAs. The RUMA with Enterprise Liquids Pipeline includes a $221,000 bond and requires the company to upgrade county and township roads prior to construction or make repairs after the works is completed.