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...Union members further charge that equating union work with non-union work in terms of bidding price is deceptive. The additional wages paid to union members, they say, translate into better work and more efficient workplaces due to greater training by the union contractors...
...They will get better quality if they just hire union workers," says Bernadette Dixon, another member of Local 40. "I think they get less quality if they hire non-union workers. There are problems in the long...
...really tell you I've noticed any difference between union and non-union labor," says Zewinski. "Harvard hires contractors who know what they're doing...
...report's author, Steven G. Allen, a professor of economics at North Carolina State University, says that on private sector projects of more than 100,000 square feet, the productivity of union labor was 30 per cent higher than non-union labor, and productivity published...
Therefore, union members say, asking unions to compete on a perfectly equal basis with non-union firms for bids does not take the whole picture into account...