Opinion ID: 702607
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Heading Rank: 5

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Text: 41 The Contra Costa County Ordinance does not seek merely to ensure that contractors on public works projects involving expenditures of County money pay prevailing wages, but goes beyond the parameters of its own public works projects to regulate wholly private construction projects. The Ordinance, therefore, is quite different from established prevailing wage statutes applicable to public works and does not justify the same exemptions from NLRA preemption. Furthermore, this type of minimum labor standard enactment, which is not of general application, but targets particular workers in a particular industry and is developed and revised from the bargaining of others, affects the bargaining process in a way that is incompatible with the general goals of the NLRA. 42 We conclude that the Contra Costa County Ordinance is pre-empted by the NLRA because it is an undue governmental interference with the collective-bargaining processes protected by that Act. Because we find the Ordinance is preempted by the NLRA, we need not decide if it is also preempted by ERISA or violates the contracts clauses of the state or federal constitutions. 43 AFFIRMED.