Corrigan v. Joseph

That section 220 of the Labor Law (subd. 3) mandates payment of wages to “ laborers, workmen or mechanics upon * * * public works ” and “ not less than the prevailing rate” cannot be denied, and no one disputes it.' Likewise undenied and indisputable is the fact that the positions held by petitioners fall within the work classification of 1 ‘ mechanics ”. (See Matter of Gaston v. Taylor, 274 N. Y. 359.) Petitioners are therefore entitled to be paid the prevailing rate of wages, and, indeed, we so held with respect to some of these very petitioners in the Gaston case. Yet the court is now…