Union
Electrician or plumber: This repair is going to take 3-4 hours and its going to cost you $2,000. Client: I guess I'll pay it.
VS
Non-Union
Accountant or Tax Preparer: This return is going to take 3-4 hours and its going to cost you $400. Client: What #$!@, $400 to punch in numbers on the computer %$#$!, give me my papers I'll find somebody else for cheaper.
...................Unions.....................
Some plumber's are good...some are bad, at what they do.
And then there is the union leader making big bucks, doing nothing.
Try this reply next time (ps, I saw something like this on a linkedin post).
If I do a job in 3 hours, it is because I have spent 20 years learning how to do that job in 3 hours. You owe me for the years, not the hours.
Tom
Modesto, CA