Not only will it leave the unions screaming but it will save the taxpayers HUGE amounts of money.
Yep. I ran nearly identical jobs in South Carilina and NYC. We had a non-union crew of 5 in SC, and 15 in NYC. The work in SC wqas completed in 4 mos, NYC 12. The total job cost in SC was about 20-25% of the NYC job.
The one good thing about union labor is they do train the guys quite well, and they are a readily available pool of well qualified labor to tap into. Generally, however, key personnel are given higher wages, per diem, etc, to truck around from job to job all over the country. On the SC job, my drill rig operator was from Boston, and the crane op from San Francisco, and received their respective home pay rates and benefits.