I’m curious...are you in one of those fields? I think you’re right on the nose with this."
Engineers and Architects are not in the building trades, so no union conflict, there are many union environmental engineering companies , union surveyors and Soil engineering companies as well as union inspection contractors, most employ higher educated execs, licensed professional engineers and technical consultants. Most union public works projects will have a dozen or so management types in freshly ironed orange vests watching 5 laborers dig a hole. Often a mega contractor who wins a bid requiring hiring union will have management and labor working and meshing together, Also there is competition for union jobs, ( and it is difficult for illegal aliens to get in BTW) so the craftsman quality and caliber of worker is most often top notch and efficient, able to stay in budget and on schedule. On the converse most non union contractors on public work projects are low bidders, ill equipped and using low waged low performance workers with bad attitudes.
I hope I don't sound like I'm defending the unions, just talking from my experience in construction management
Oh?
It’s one thing to dig a hole for a swimming pool, or put some shingles on a roof or plant some shurbs along a driveway...
It’s quite another to build a bridge or a power plant...