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I must say that I have had a tension filled relationship with "Da Unions". I live in a large city that has been traditionally very pro union.

My operational costs have gone up in ways that these union people do not understand. Simply adding a holiday translates into lost productivity and no billing. Yet these people always want more money. They recently got a 10% raise on top of other things and then complain about how we should have gotten some key jobs. sales takes the blame about 100% of the time.

The fact is, since I can't lower my price I try to do it faster and that is what these people don't want to hear. If it takes 4 days to do a job, management with some engineering tries to find ways of doing it in 3 days or less. Unions are very resistant to this because they want there time to be spread out and at their own pace. It's like dealing with welfare recipients.

Well, after so many years of this crap along comes a little nonunion shop and starts undercutting people like crazy. A job that costs me 150K costs them only 80k and then they get the work for obvious reasons.

I had to lay off people because of things like this. Now every time these people want a raise, I am forced to look for ways to cut costs.

The labor unions are forcing me out of the market and eventually themselves. PERIOD. They had their usefulness in improving work standards, safety, and improving working class living standards back in 1910 but now profit sharing is profit killing. It's greed.

If enough nonunion companies come into this market, I can't see how we can compete. End of story

Yep, a union shop can be just like letting the children run their school. The children lack the knowledge and judgement to run their school and that arrangement doesn't work well....lol

Excellent post, your no. 51. Absolutely.

Now, imagine if the Governemnt didn't allow your competitors to undersell you. You'd have no problem, would you?

That's the way it was in the 1930s. Government created the Detroit/ Union cartel. Payback time now.