Whistleblower Says Illegal Aliens Have ‘Taken Over Every Trade’ in CA Construction (T)

Breitbart ^ | 14 March 2018 | John Binder

[Windflier]

...it never got cheaper. The contractors have been taking it in markup.

That's possibly the case with general contractors and large developers, but if you're a specialty trade contractor (like me), you've gotten hammered over the last fifteen years.

[BobL]

“I’ve been in the trades since 1979, and can tell you that non-union journeymen only made half that wage in the late 80s.”

I would hope that would be the case for non-union, but the union boys certainly weren’t cheap...and then couple that with the legendary productivity of unions and it becomes obvious why there was such an effort to finally break them.

[Windflier]

,,,the union boys certainly weren’t cheap.

No, they weren't, but most commercial job sites in Cali employed non-union labor 40 years ago.

The unions owned the state and municipal projects, and most large non-residential work, in those days.

By the time I became a licensed contractor in the late 90s, they'd started to lose their iron grip on those sectors. My buddies and I used to get offers from the state to bid on there projects all the time, in those days.

[11th_VA]

That's because the NIMBY'S in California won't allow new housing, except in the 'Inland Empire'.

And roads are terrible so who wants to commute that far.