Hiya. I work in a field that has is travel all over America and sometimes to other countries doing a form of construction. Because of this, obviously, me and my other coworkers live all over America. This is not a fertile of work that can be unionized, at least I don’t see how it could be. This isn’t an issue, however, because the company treats us really well, with great pay, expenses, and per diem. It’s definitely the best job I’ve ever had.
My question has to do with unions. We were in a city that is very pop to union, apparently. We had a small 6 man crew and were killed it. Job finished somewhat early and we were even able to go to a hockey game. But we had a random guy come in and start questioning what we were doing, telling us we were doing it wrong, questioning how we’re knew how to accurately orient ourselves in the room using the blueprints, and other things that were really odd. We hadn’t seen this guy before and he’s didn’t know who our contact was for that particular job. Right before he left he asked us if we were part of the carpenters union, you which were answered no. Whatever, it was odd but we did our job and went home. The next week we were supposed to go back out there to do more of the same, however, other trades that were working in the building found out that we weren’t union and refused to work in the same building as us. So we essentially got fired. One of our leads went out there to show some union workers how to do our job, wasn’t allowed to pick up a tool, and said that the workers were terribly slow and it took them a week to do what we did in a day.
So, my question is, why were these workers so against us working in the building with them? Is this common among unions? We provide a specialty that does not allow us to work from just one state, so this seems really unfair to me.