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I. Introduction

In Independent Roofing Contractors v. Department of Industrial Relations (1994) 23 Cal.App.4th 345 [ 28 Cal.Rptr.2d 550 ] (hereafter Independent Roofing), we affirmed a decision of the San Francisco Superior Court denying a petition for a writ of mandate sought by two associations of building contractors seeking to compel the state’s Department of Industrial Relations (hereafter DIR) to undo an administrative decision depublishing a certain wage determination under California’s prevailing wage law (Lab. Code, § 1770 et seq.) The controversy before us in Independent Roofing had its genesis in a long-standing jurisdictional dispute between two building and construction trade unions in Northern California, the Laborers and the Pipefitters (hereafter UA), as to which of them has jurisdiction over certain types of construction work. This case involves a subsequent chapter in exactly the same jurisdictional dispute. In it, we affirm the same court’s— indeed, the same trial judge’s —denial of a similar petition by which the UA sought to compel the DIR to publish, as a part of the same public works/ wage determination process, a since-canceled 1992…