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If you run a large construction company and all of a sudden need to double your workforce, then the Unions have the advantage.

Example,
In my company, I have the same 30 or so guys working in the field everyday. One of my customers calls me and offers me a job starting tomorrow that will require 10 men. I want the job but I don't have any available employees to do the work. I call the hall and the next morning I have 10 well trained men on my jobsite doing the job without much supervision. Plus they all speak the same language and can read.

Without the Union Hiring Hall I would have to pass on the job.

This is an example of the positives to the union. The downside is that each one of those men costs me $46/hr direct labor cost including insurances.