You do have unions in the state of Texas & many union contractors come to Texas from all over the country to errect new buildings , big union contractors bid work nation & world wide .
You have a bad impression of unions , i think your attitude twords unions stems from the sheer sloth many unions represented in the late 70's & early 80's , i'll be the 1st to admit that some unions promoted sloth durring that 10 to 12 yr period , mainly the UAW & the quality of american cars durring that period showed a pure shit work ethic & zero care about pride of workmanship or a general good work ethic .
Those 10 yrs or so that us older folks rember has tainted unions in a big way , i can assure you the days of shit work ethic , sloth & poor quality product are lone gone , even with the UAW they gave up their sloth demands & went back to having only employees with an excellent work ethic & quality of product , had they not changed their ways the UAW along with all US auto makers woulda went the wayside along time ago .
Right now ford & gm are building world class trucks who's quality is unrivaled , my personal old beater gmc 1500 has over 300,000 miles on it & thats when the odometer broke so it could have 400,000 miles on it & i'd drive it from Michigan to your place in Texas without a concern & it hasnt been drove this yr at all .
My union built 1952 Panhead HD has over 500,000 miles on the bike & its still going strong after over 60 yrs of use, no 63 yr old rice grinders on the road ive seen .
As for quality of workmanship with unionized construction workers the unions are unrivaled , a union apprentice bldg tradesman gets a minimum of 3 to 5 yrs trade school before getting a journeymans card in their trade , i myself spent just over 10 yrs in trade schools learning the skills needed to coordinate multi million dollar projects where quality is a must , my non union counterpart attends 6 months of online trade school in construction management, we've all saw the tv commercials with the dicks looking at blueprints from some online school , if you were having a building errected who'd you rather have in charge , an ex welfare bum with 6 months online training or a guy like me who's spent over 10 yrs in trade schools learning proper quality proceedures ?
You might be interested in knowing some facts about the boom in Texas , it has the most on the job construction injuries in the entire US , roughly half of construction workers in Texas are undoccumented illegal workers which has drove construction workers wages in the state to be the lowest average in the entire US .
Texas has by far the largest number of reported cases of wage fraud , some workers paid as low as $4 an hour because their illegal, some workers worked for weeks without any pay at all then fired for no reason , then the contractor hires a whole new group of illegals , works the shit outta them for weeks & fires them too , who they gonna complain to Lamigra ?
How great of product is a guy making $4 an hour gonna do ? Not much i suspect , one in every 16 workers in Texas is employed in the construction industry & the average hourly pay is $8 an hour .
Texas is also the nations leader by far in on the job deaths over the rest of the country , Texas also leads the countrys construction industry in construction worker deaths related to incompetence or gross negligence of any saftey protocols .
This poorly trained crane operator who had 90 days of training caused the death of 2 workers by not understanding the cranes computer system , i spent 4 yrs learning to run that same crane a Texas man was allowed to operate with 90 days training .
You should rember this accident causing 2 deaths & dozens of non workmans comp protected injuries at the University of Texas in 2012 .
The government estimates the lost federal taxes from the over 500,000 illegal alien construction workers at $1.6 billion dollars a year & thats from just the untaxed laborers income, over 40% of hourly construction workers in Texas are Mislabled as subcontractors & are not covered under any workmans comp insurance should they get hurt or die on the job they are stuck with all medical bills .
Texas also leads the nation in construction company tax evasion , by labeling $8 an hour workers as subcontractors the companies avoid paying any social security taxes for their workers which costs social security billions in lost revenue each year .
Texas also leads the nation in workmans comp fraud , by calling hourly workers subcontractors they dont have to cover construction workers comp .
Texas also leads the nations construction industry in worker tax fraud , the 500,000 illegal alien $8 an hour subcontractor employees have zero income taxes deducted from their checks & since their illegal they dont file tax returns .
Sure sounds to me that the boom in Texas is happening while the rest of the country is picking up the tab for the billions its companys & workers are allowed to cheat the goverment out of , it sounds like a scab business mans paradise & a construction workers worst nightmare , it must be nice to have the rest of the country pay the hospital bills of the 1 in 5 construction workers with no comp require hospitalization from on the job injuries .
Heres a direct quote from last months Building Tradesman magazine i get each month , how do you feel about this roofers death & his family loosing a father then being stuck with all the bills from his death & funeral.
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Take the story of 48-year-old Angel Hurtado, an undocumented roofer who died at an Austin warehouse site that had fallen behind schedule & the boss was screaming he would fire everybody if rhey didnt hurry up .Angel plummeted 20 feet to a concrete floor, hitting his head on a girder as he fell, no warning lines were in place and the job site had no saftey measures in place in direct violation .
Standing on the back road in the upscale Austin suburb of West Lake Hills where his father died, Angel's son Christian grows quiet and sad. His mother was also working at the site that day and saw her husband fall. She cradled his broken head in her lap, hysterical with grief while the foreman yelled at the men to get back to work or they would be fired , all were directed not to answer questions from police about the fall .
When Christian arrived, the subcontractor took him aside and promised to pay for his father's funeral, Christian says. "The next day, we never see this guy. He never pick up the phone. We never hear anything from him, and he never called us back."
According to the study, 1 in every 5 Texas construction workers will require hospitalization because of injuries on the job. Texas is the only state in the nation without mandatory workers' compensation, meaning hospitals and taxpayers usually end up shouldering the cost when uncovered construction workers are hurt.
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The only people who are booming in Texas are those with money & wealth , its a well off mans paradise & at the same time a workers hell being the lowest paid construction workers in the US with the highest death rate .
How the hell can you support this kinda shit uncleben ? Seriously how can you be proud of your state when its companys are getting rich from tax fraud & using a half million illegal workers who will most likely be seriously injured or die while at work , then need to collect foodstamps just to eat .
Please tell me your not proud of the statistics i quoted .
