"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Dan Krueger wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

The local boat show starts at noon today and runs through Sunday.
Newspaper says admission fee has jumped to $ 10.00. Is it just
me..or does that seem a bit excessive?
http://www.masterpromotions.ca/halif...-boat-show.asp
It should be free.
It should be free but many of these shows are run by large
exhibition companies employing union labor at exorbitant rates.
Traffic control, ticket sales, security, etc. are all union
controlled.

I have attended shows where you would have to literally pay a union
electrician $50 to plug in your extension cord. Plug it in yourself
and you would be charged the same $50. Simple forklift delivery of
your booth materials cost hundreds. Even worse, they would put
their hand out looking for a tip while they are on the clock.
Pretty sad.

Poor Dan. He had to pay a contractor who paid his workers a decent
wage with benefits.

What do *you* do that's worth $50?

Dan speaks the truth Harry. That is the way it goes at the
International Exposition Center in Cleveland. I am sure other
unionized convention centers are the same

BTW: I have all respect for union electricians, plumbers, laborers,
masons, ironworkers and equipment operators, especially those working
construction. But you have to admit that unions many times (as in the
case Dan posted) the same unions take advantage of circumstances.

How so? The union elecricians work for a contractor. The contractor has
the arrangement with the convention center. The contractor has
negotiated rates with the convention center.


BS. The union, not the contractor, wrote the rules.


Sorry, but virtually all union rates in the construction trades are the
result of negotiations between representatives of the unions and
representatives of the union contractors for whom they work. The
contractor then negotiates his rates with his customers. It's called
collective bargaining.

So solly Harry. You just changed the subject. We were talking about
mandated rates at convention centers for union electricians and the mandate
to use them. Why are you now talking about union rates on construction
jobs???