Welders in the small, private, dirty,non-Union shipyard where I work make $22.50 an hour. That’s average wage for welders around here and here is in Alabama not Califonia.
Cali is outrageous. They pay the heck out of government connected jobs and the shipyards are quasi government.
All the unions blackmail holding products off shore indefinitely on ships that can not get to port with products.
Blackmails the economy and so far the unions have not had criminal charges against them because they give hundreds of millions to Democrats.