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Glad everything is working out man!

Depends on what it is. If you are undercutting your own trade then hell yes they have a huge problem with that. Each area is different, and each trade is too. Carpenters often rat on just about anything they can on the side, one of the many reasons they are treated like they are. Around here...

It really just depends. I've worked all year a majority of my time in, including over a decade without a single layoff. There's guys who mainly do travel work, and would rather work on the road doing big overtime jobs rather than working close to home only getting 40 hours a week. I was doing...

Yeah it's weird at first. The year before last i worked in 4 different states and 6 different contractors, many guys have done even more in a year. So that actually means i was laid off or quit that many times. Needless to say i hire my taxes out :lol: When you are working shutdowns you will...

Yup, same here. It's required up here for a bunch of stuff, and the employer pays that as part of his taxes. Then as a worker you apply when you are laid off. In construction they usually lay you off at the end of every job, so you go in and out of unemployment so much it's funny. You have to...

It depends where you are too. The scale out there for me is way higher too, roughly another 25 an hour. High cost of living = way higher wages. Hell Chicago is quite substantially higher than here as well, and it's only 3 hours away. That was my point, a wage that seems out of this world for...

Exactly. There's different expectations/ ways of doing things in different parts of the country. Out east in large population centers, in certain places in the Midwest, and in certain places out west union construction is almost mandatory. This carries over to utility work, and sometimes even to...

I've met several. I live in Illinois, you live in a place with far better weather. Massachusetts has a far higher cost of living than Mississippi and downstate il combined.

Right now for a journeyman tree guy its 37.60 on the check, 7.70 for healthcare, and 14.02 in a pension. So on a 40 hour week you would be making 40 x 37.60 = 1504 minus taxes and union dues. And that's hourly. So if they are 35 an hour, healthcare and a 401 it might be in the ballpark. The...

I almost hate to say this, but i have to agree with Frankie on this one. Different states have different costs of living, and ma is one of the highest. It's also very unionized as are most places that have high costs of living. Here it is straight from the prevailing wage rates, which can be...