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| I’ve never had an hourly job where most of the workers didn’t just do the bare minimum and a very small few carried all the weight. I made the same or sometimes even less, never much more per hour to do twice the work as the guy hiding when there was something crappy to do or smoking cigarettes outside for 10 minutes every hour.
It becomes the culture. New guy comes in ready to work. The veterans take him aside and eventually get him down to their level so they don’t look bad.
I have no doubt the Union guys could do all the work in 32 hours if they wanted to.
When I was in college an older cousin of mine asked if I could fill in for his T post drivers one weekend. He had 2 guys he was paying 15 an hour to drive 1/4 mile of T posts every Saturday. (Like 100 posts) I had firewood to cut, but told him sure I’d do it, but I just wanted paid what he usually paid them to get it done. He said $300 and he brought them lunch. I told him ok I will do it for $300 and a Case of beer. He was really upset when I called him at 10:30 AM to bring me check and the beer. You see I was cutting 4-500 cords of wood a year and splitting it with a maul, 3.5 hours of solid labor and I didn’t even need a water break. Not to mention I went to the gym every day after class to lift weight before my various afternoon/evening hourly jobs.
If you need a pasture leveled, would you pay a guy in a skid steer the same hourly rate as a guy in a dozer? If I’m going to be a bulldozer, I want paid like one not a skid steer.
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Labor unions - UAW's demands
