Not to sat all unions are bad, or that most are bad, but ...
On the jobs where I have done inspections of masonry, the union guys were always complaining about how many pieces they had to place an hour--not too many--not too few. Complaining about the union, or the non union workers. Whatever the subject, it seemed they always were negative and ready to complain. They could not even agree among themselves how to lay split-faeced block--some said even at the front edge, others said even at the back edge, still others said to split the difference.

Maybe that was not typical, but it has been my experience.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags