{"id":3547,"date":"2014-08-01T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insulatorsjatc.org\/repeal-davis-bacon\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:07:00","slug":"repeal-davis-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insulatorsjatc.org\/es\/repeal-davis-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Derogaci\u00f3n de la ley Davis-Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-migrated-cms-post\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>D\u00e9mosle un respiro a los contribuyentes y a los trabajadores de la construcci\u00f3n no sindicalizados.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Por Lamar Alexander <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Este mes, me un\u00ed al senador Mike Lee de Utah para pedir la derogaci\u00f3n de una ley que regula los proyectos de construcci\u00f3n federales que da ventaja a los sindicatos y cuesta miles de millones a los contribuyentes. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>La Ley Davis-Bacon, que se convirti\u00f3 en ley en 1931, requiere que todos los contratistas y subcontratistas que trabajen en proyectos de construcci\u00f3n federales con un valor superior a $1,000 a $2,000 paguen a sus trabajadores el \u201csalario prevaleciente\u201d local, seg\u00fan lo determine el Departamento de Trabajo. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Esta ley de la \u00e9poca de la Depresi\u00f3n significa que, en lugar de hacer el trabajo al menor costo posible, los contratistas se ven obligados a pagar salarios inflados artificialmente por todo, desde construir puentes hasta reparar techos y pintar l\u00edneas divisorias en nuestras carreteras. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1995, cuando era candidato a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos, propuse la derogaci\u00f3n de la legislaci\u00f3n que ampliaba las disposiciones de la ley Davis-Bacon a la construcci\u00f3n y renovaci\u00f3n de escuelas, diciendo: \u201cEso significa que un director de Moline que quiera contratar a un contratista para que recablee su escuela para instalar nuevas computadoras debe pagar el salario sindical vigente en lugar de hacer el trabajo al menor costo. Es un gran favor para los sindicatos, pero no es ning\u00fan favor para las escuelas, la eficiencia o la econom\u00eda\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dije esto hace casi 20 a\u00f1os, pero estas palabras siguen siendo igual de v\u00e1lidas hoy en d\u00eda. La ley Davis-Bacon es un perjuicio para los trabajadores de la industria de la construcci\u00f3n y una carga para los contribuyentes, que en \u00faltima instancia son quienes pagan la factura de este subsidio salarial. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>En primer lugar, la ley Davis-Bacon priva a los trabajadores no cualificados de una oportunidad justa de ser contratados, inclinando en cambio la balanza a favor de los grandes sindicatos. Si los empleadores saben que deben pagar un salario predeterminado, no tienen ning\u00fan incentivo para contratar a trabajadores inexpertos en lugar de a trabajadores experimentados y sindicalizados, incluso para un trabajo que requiera una formaci\u00f3n m\u00ednima. Como s\u00f3lo el 13,2 por ciento de la fuerza laboral de la construcci\u00f3n privada est\u00e1 sindicalizada a nivel nacional, la ley Davis-Bacon tiene el efecto de discriminar al 86,8 por ciento de los trabajadores de la construcci\u00f3n. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>En segundo lugar, adem\u00e1s de perjudicar a los trabajadores no sindicalizados, la Ley Davis-Bacon env\u00eda una factura anual a los contribuyentes por un valor de 1.400 millones de d\u00f3lares, seg\u00fan un estudio de la Universidad de Suffolk de 2008. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>La Oficina de Presupuesto del Congreso (CBO), que no es partidista, informa que los requisitos de la ley Davis-Bacon aumentan los costos de construcci\u00f3n no s\u00f3lo al aumentar los salarios en los proyectos federales y exigir que la mano de obra se utilice de manera ineficiente, sino tambi\u00e9n al imponer requisitos de presentaci\u00f3n de informes y papeleo a los contratistas. La CBO estima que la derogaci\u00f3n ahorrar\u00eda 12.700 millones de d\u00f3lares en diez a\u00f1os. En 1979, nuestro organismo de control del Congreso, la Oficina General de Contabilidad (ahora rebautizada como Oficina de Responsabilidad Gubernamental), public\u00f3 un informe titulado \u201cLa Ley Davis-Bacon deber\u00eda ser derogada\u201d. Este informe calific\u00f3 la ley de \u201cinnecesaria\u201d y se\u00f1al\u00f3 que el Departamento de Trabajo a\u00fan no hab\u00eda concebido un programa para emitir determinaciones salariales precisas. Sin embargo, hoy en d\u00eda, los datos sobre los salarios prevalecientes son costosos de recopilar y est\u00e1n sujetos a errores, sesgos y fraudes. Incluso despu\u00e9s de que se hayan gastado millones de d\u00f3lares en un intento de mejorar la recopilaci\u00f3n de datos, el inspector general del departamento ha descubierto que estos problemas siguen prevaleciendo. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>El proyecto de ley del senador Lee para derogar esta ley, la Ley de Derogaci\u00f3n Davis-Bacon, est\u00e1 copatrocinado por los senadores Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Tim Scott (R., Carolina del Sur), Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), Tom Coburn (R., Oklahoma), Ron Johnson (R., Wisconsin), John Cornyn (R., Texas), Marco Rubio (R., Florida) y David Vitter (R., Luisiana). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hay pruebas abrumadoras que apoyan la eliminaci\u00f3n de esta ley, y espero que nuestros colegas se unan a nosotros para pedir su derogaci\u00f3n. Dejemos atr\u00e1s la burocracia y el favoritismo sindical y avancemos hacia la justicia para los trabajadores de la construcci\u00f3n estadounidenses y los contribuyentes por igual. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>\u2014 Lamar Alexander representa a Tennessee en el Senado de Estados Unidos, donde es el republicano de mayor rango en el comit\u00e9 laboral del Senado.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9mosle un respiro a los contribuyentes y a los trabajadores de la construcci\u00f3n no sindicalizados.<br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n Por Lamar Alexander<br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n Este mes, me un\u00ed al senador Mike Lee de Utah.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Repeal Davis-Bacon - Insulators International Union Apprenticeship &amp; 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