Springfield aldermen will consider an ordinance in the coming week to spend more than $2 million in TIF funds to improve roads and buildings in the Poplar Place neighborhood. But it’s still unclear if labor issues on the project will be a stumbling block.
The owners of the property acknowledged to the City Council last month that they won’t necessarily use union labor for the work.
Mayor Jim Langfelder, who supports the project, says the owners will still follow prevailing wage laws… and says the project will provide an opportunity to train inexperienced workers who could someday become members of local trade unions.
