AWF Will Rate Cloture Vote Against HR 6049
LEGISLATIVE ALERT
AWF Will Rate Cloture “NO” Vote on HR 6049
Extenders Package Expands the Davis-Bacon Act
Washington, D.C. – The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) urges all Senators to oppose the application and expansion of prevailing wage Davis-Bacon requirements and VOTE NO on H.R. 6049, the “Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008.”
It is clearly stated in Section 106 of H.R. 6049, page 51:
“Subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code, shall apply to projects financed with the proceeds of any tax credit bond (as defined in section 54A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).”
CHAPTER 31 OF TITLE 40 USC IS THE DAVIS BACON ACT.
In the 21st Century, especially in the new competitive global economy, it is essential to allow the free market system to determine wages. Command-and-control government regulations do not foster a free and open society.
The Davis-Bacon survey is not a statistically random sample like the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ unemployment or wage surveys. Rather, the survey results indicate that the prevailing wage is most often equal to the union wage. This means unionized construction companies can decide the rate of any federal project.
Inaccurate and out of date self-reported surveys, with an error rate of 100 percent, hardly reflect true prevailing wages. With overwhelming evidence for reform, allowing these distorting practices to continue does nothing more than skew the labor market directly in favor of Big Labor unions and against the average American worker and business owner.
AWF Will Rate “NO” Vote on Cloture for the Extenders Package which expands flawed wage subsidies
