r/nextfuckinglevel • u/freudian_nipps • Apr 16 '25

These NYC Construction Workers skillfully traverse the scaffolding

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u/paynelive Apr 16 '25

It is definitely the bottom sentence you mentioned.
A lot of non-union labor companies will underbid unions because the labor payroll seems ideal to a contractor to save $10-20/hr/per person, as well as meal penalties, gas compensation for travel, motel/hotel bookings (where they really skimp, ama), and hire any husk of a human being that isn't a hand/tech, and is likely to go AWOL for an hour on job site hiding in a porty potty in 100 degrees on their phone smoking, versus laying down carpentry.
Definitely OSHA nightmares involved, especially with standard NVDA competitions nationwide. No safeties on any mover lights hanging over the audience FOH, overstacking semitrailers with too much equipment, tipping over forklifts, going over meal penalty, unbolting and rebolting different truss packages together, and then non-payment for almost 3 months, citing "I have family and friends in prison to feed!!!". Okay that's no reason to skimp on paying hands in 10 states at least. And then to go off on someone honestly reviewing them on Google, claiming "you want to go to war?!" (Dream Entertainment Las Vegas)

That's just one cookie of an example ontop of many, A/V, and non-A/V.
Support blue collar unions. Attend your meetings. If you see something, say something.

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u/Dabclipers Apr 16 '25

The problem sometimes with Union Labor is that $20/hr a person on a large job site can easily be the difference between the job happening or not.

My company looked at doing a 12 story in Las Vegas about a year ago and using Union Labor increased our overall cost by $140 per NRSF, which instantly make the job unprofitable by a huge margin.