City of Houston v. Houston Gulf Coast Building & Construction Trades Council

OPINION

SAM BASS, Justice.

The City of Houston appeals from a temporary injunction prohibiting it from enforcing Ordinance No. 85-2070, which sets rates to be used as the minimum wage for workers in public works projects, and prohibiting it from letting public works contracts that incorporate the rates contained in the ordinance. We hold that the trial court erred in granting the temporary injunction, and order the injunction dissolved and the proceedings dismissed.

This action was brought by the Houston Gulf Coast Building and Construction Trades Council (“Trades Council”) and its President,…