[Andras Nagy]

Hi Matt,

Yes, but we were the architects on a condo in Palm Beach for which the workers were all Hispanics, who, unfortunatley, didn't have construction skills. Nice people all, but they had no construction experience.

And the result was bad workmanship, not because they were Hispanics but because they had no construction skills.

Unfortunately, the General Contractor charged them out at $40/hr. but we are certain they paid them only $10/hr., if that. The GC pocketed the difference.

Would a union have made a difference? Probably, because then we would have had skilled craftsmen on the jobsite.

But we were talking about union practices where the Union is unreasonable, overly-protective, and "cheats" busninesses, thus driving the business's costs up to the point that businesses now avoid towns like New York, Chicago, Dallas, etc.

How can anyone justify the kind of practice that I worte about in my earlier post? That can't be justified.