An all to familiar story, and folks wonder why **** costs so much to get
done.

--Mike

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:54:15 GMT, "Mike" wrote:

Non-Union General Contractor here... and folks ask me why... sheez. I pay
a
fair wage, and expect an honest day's work... what a concept. Your
"electrician" made a weeks wage in one day... lovely.

Don't know why, but this reminds me of a conversation I had with my
dad. He was a union roofer, then pile-driver, then started his own
company and subbed a number of jobs driving sheet.
When he became a contractor he began bitching about "the unions."
One day he's bitching about a job he hardly broke even on because
there were a lot of rainy mornings. The crew, which was always 1 or 2
of his brothers and a couple buddies, would call in about 6 AM that it
was raining, so they couldn't work. Because of union rules, they got
paid anyway. Then by about 8:30 in the morning it would stop raining,
but by then these guys couldn't be reached by phone to tell them to
get to the job site. Real *******s.
"So I end up paying these guys to be out fishing all day. The god
damn union rules kept me from making money on that job." says dad.
"How do you know they were fishing?" I asked.
"Hell, we always took my boat" he says.

--Vic