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This 5 page paper provides an overview of this 1931 act pertinent to unionized workers. The possibility of repeal, and the movement to repeal the act in the 1970s, is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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are accepted as part of the workplace landscape. But unions did not always exist. Unions largely surfaced as a result of industrialization and they experienced a great deal of growth
in the late 1800s during the industrial era. Prior to that time, the idea of banding together never turned into the groups which were formed and are well known today.
Again, many issues have surfaced surrounding unionization. The Davis-Bacon Act, and whether or not it should be repealed, is an important labor issue today. The Davis-Bacon Act was implemented
in 1931 in order to protect communities and workers from economic disruption which was created by contractors who hired workers from outside the local geographic area ("Davis-Bacon" PG).
Why would employers want to do this? They did so because in certain other locations wages are lower (PG). By hiring from other jurisdictions, they were able to
obtain federal construction contracts by underbidding contractors who pay local rates of pay (PG). The act requires that employers pay salaries at locally prevailing wage rates and the
dictum includes the fact that employers must also accomplish this while including fringe benefits ("Davis-Bacon" PG). While this act was implemented many years ago, since that time, Congress
has enacted a variety of statutes that extend Davis-Bacons prevailing wage provisions to construction projects for which the federal government provides only partial funding (PG). The Department of
Labor, the part of government that administers the act, obtains information from construction contractors as well as other interested third parties in order to compile data on wages paid to
workers in various construction crafts (PG). They use the data so that they can determine local prevailing wage rates (PG). While the act was useful in the 1930s, and one
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