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Old Posted Jan 15, 2015, 10:44 PM
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I would expect most skyscraper enthusiasts to be in favor of using non-union labor. I'm sure we can all agree that part of the reason it's so hard to get a supertall built here is that labor costs are astronomically higher than other parts of the world. Anything to lower that cost would make more projects economically viable. Construction workers in New York make salaries that are incredibly high even by US standards. Unions purposefully limit the supply of labor in order to inflate their wages. I'm not trying to cheer anyone making less money, but it's just a fact that union labor is often much slower and more expensive than non-union.