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• musicale 6y ago
  Page 15 of the report: "It is unclear to what extent union labor is a problem outside New York, but within New York it has contributed to rampant overstaffing and wages in the building trades that are well above market rates. Prevailing wage laws should be used to ensure local workers earn a fair and competitive wage, not to reward special interest groups and other political insiders."
  • chickenpotpie 6y ago
    Top level comment was that unions were solely to blame for the rising infrastructure costs in America. There’s 14 other pages of causes and those two sentences don’t even address outside of a single state.
  • nonameiguess 6y ago
    Until what? 20 years ago if we're generous, New York construction was specifically controlled by the mafia, which controlled the unions and drove up costs by restricting in a rather extra-legal manner who was even allowed to bid on a job. Painting capture by organized crime as some necessary feature of all labor unions is probably not fair. They captured a lot of the politicians, too, and often also owned the construction companies.