Given that you are required to be a licensed electrician to work in more or less any municipality that has a building code, unions requiring <harder, more expen

Given that you are required to be a licensed electrician to work in more or less any municipality that has a building code, unions requiring <harder, more expensive thing> instead of <easier, cheaper thing> seems less important. Most of the times I've dug in and researched these "unions are holding us back" claims, they tend to generally evaporate. Also, given the way shrinkflation and related phenomena work, do you actually believe that if a municipality went from banning PEX to allowing it, the prices of new homes in its boundaries would go down?