Is this from The Onion?
How can giving his employees the ‘Right-to-Work’ possibly COST his business money? That simply does not compute. James Hoffman, president of Hoffman Construction in Black River Falls, is ideologue and he is certainly free to expand wherever he sees is best for his business. I wish him luck....
To James Hoffman, president of Hoffman Construction in Black River Falls: “Don’t let the door hit you in the arse... on your way to Miny-soda.”
Being from the AP, it may as well be.
I am a union carpenter(Local 804) in Wisconsin. The “right to work” bill was opposed by over 500 union construction companies in Wisconsin, for good reason.
As a union carpenter, I get no holiday pay, no sick day pay, no vacation pay, or “personal time off” pay. The saying is “the money stops when the hammer drops.
Construction unions are FAR REMOVED from what most people think of as “unions”.
In essence, a construction union is little more temp agency for the contractors.
You need two hundred carpenters for a mill shut down over the Fourth of July weekend? Call the hall. The men will be there, and they will be highly trained, highly skilled workers.
Like most of you, I think that most unions went “crazy” in their demands, but when it comes to construction, its a different ball game. One of the biggest union contractors in Wisconsin is wondering if this new law will allow him to survive.
This contractor understands that unless he has a highly skilled workforce at his beck and call, his business is in jeopardy.