[TheRealVille]

In the construction industry, even in non right to work states, companies can still hire non union, if they so choose. There are no laws whatsoever that make a company hire union employees. Granted, like Marathon in Ashland, KY., when they decided to also hire non union, when they hire us the wages go to 100% scale. We gave them a 90% scale until they started hiring non union. You want to know who they call when they need skilled workers, instead of just the non skilled non union workers, union. The welding was a prime example a few years ago. The non union workers couldn't handle the welding part of the job, so they had to call us. They had to pay 100% of our scale also, after years of giving them 90%.