“You cannot build big infrastructure without the unions”

Here’s something you don’t see every day on the Canadian Contractor website – a comment about how great unions can be. 

I should keep my comments to a minimum here, but Frank: “Without unions nothing would get built.” ??????? In our reno and custom home building industry, that’s nuts. As far as building public infrastructure, some good points…

“You cannot build big infrastructure with out the unions controlling the mass of workers for the benefit of the employers.The employers actually save money on safety and self accountability with the union teaching the mass of workers. The companies would be wasting a lot of time trying to do this themselves. I know this from 30 years of working in the construction industry. The union makes it mandatory for union workers to take all these courses. In the past employers had no courses at all and if they did they paid you on their time. Small companies, not so much, but really they only depend on extra money that people have in their pockets. Big jobs are usually government funded and the union can get these big projects done. It would be impossible for non-union companies to get these jobs done. Imagine companies trying to man these jobs themselves or the government having to do it? Without unions nothing would get built. This is how Canada works so well.”

Frank