St. Joseph, Champaign County, IL | Don’t understand why Prevailing Wage is even a thing!
My Example: Before going out on our own, my now business partner and I were changing out traffic control light bulbs for our employer. Saw a guy taking pictures, who turned out to be a Union rep. He came and talked to us for a bit, then left. As a result of that, our employer got in some trouble for not paying us prevailing wages for the time we were changing light bulbs, since it was doing work for a government entity in Illinois. They had to go a certain distance back in their records and write us a check to make up for the pay we were “owed” at prevailing wage.
Why should we, as employees who agreed to work for this company at $XX.XX per hour automatically get a pay raise just because we are now doing a job for a governmental body? Neither of us thought that the job of changing it light bulbs was out of the ordinary for what we’d been hired to do. Why should the taxpayers be forced to pay extra to get a job done?
IMO, Unions are, for the most part, relics from another time period. As has been said above, I don’t believe that if the unions disappeared today, that we’d instantly go back to child labor doing dangerous jobs in unhealthy conditions. |
Do Union Dues make economic sense?
