Like others, I've got my share of union "horror stories" having worked for GM in a salaried position and then with suppliers to the automotive industry. In general, as a supplier, when we estimated installation for our equipment, if we had to use UAW skilled trades, we estimated longer installation times than if we used our own people. Getting a UAW electrician, millwright or pipefitter to do something always took longer and required more bodies to complete the job.
However, that is private enterprise and why I buy non-union vehicles, made in America, with more local content than the Detroit 3. I.e. it is my choice to support or NOT support a company that employs union labor.
Requiring prevailing wage on government jobs (paid for by taxpayers) is a "gift" to the unions (allows them to be competitive) and unnecessarily drives up costs. This means that taxpayers have no choice in the matter whether to support unions (and their arbitrarily high wages and archaic, nonsensical work rules) or not.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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