MCL 24.61 State Printing and Legislative Printing; Requirements; Exceptions; Preference

• Library: Michigan Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Public Act 228 of the 2023 Legislative Session

(1) All printing that this state is chargeable, or that is paid for with funds appropriated wholly or in part by this state, excepting printing for primary school districts, counties, townships, cities, villages, or legal publications ordered for or by elective state officers, shall bear the label of the branch of the allied printing trades council of the locality in which it is printed, except under the following conditions:

(a) Printing firms not having the use of the allied printing trades council union label in the locality in which it is printed and who are desirous of presenting bids for printing as enumerated in this section are required to establish consideration as a responsible bidder as follows:

(i) As a condition to consideration as a responsible bidder printing concerns must file with the secretary of state a sworn statement to the effect that employees in the employ of the concern that is to produce the printing are receiving the prevailing wage rate and are working under conditions prevalent in the locality in which the work is produced.

(ii) Whenever a collective bargaining agreement is in effect between an employer and employees who are represented by a responsible organization that is in no way influenced or controlled by the management, that agreement and its provisions are considered as conditions prevalent in that locality and are the minimum requirements for being adjudged a responsible bidder under this act.