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It certainly squares with my own experience (some years ago now) of union construction work. I've always thought that it's not really the money that's the problem with unions, but the work rules and employer-as-enemy attitude. I used to do ceramic tile work: on a union job, we weren't even allowed to plug in our own extension cords. Had to wait for a UNION electrician to come along and do it. There were rules about how many square feet you were allowed to do in a day: when you'd done that much, you stopped - but had to stay on site and get paid for 8 hours. And on and on, to the point that it seemed a miracle that anything ever got built. Contract a non-union job, one where we were paid by the job rather than time, and we could get about 3 times as much work done in a day, and take home twice as much money.
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