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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (108299)	6/12/2001 6:30:20 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

re: $15/hour It's a market rate. Non-union with no certification. I learned how to use a screw gun in half a day.....took me a little longer to learn how to work on stilts though. -g-. He works for a subcontracting (metal framing, drywall and accoustical ceilings) firm that does lots of different kinds of commercial projects. Corporate, hospitals, schools and a little retail. Very little government except the schools because most of those jobs are union. My husband works on very few "scale" jobs. The union job sites tend to pay a little higher if you don't mind not getting as much work (overtime) and having to pay a percentage to the union. My husband makes more money than a comparable union guy that does exactly what he does (job foreman). Labor isn't as tight now as it was for the last four-five years but it was so tight for a while there he had to hire anyone with a pulse and all the old timers like himself were pushed to work weekends and nights in over time. There was about three years there where I didn't see him much. What has always killed me is that I hear people piss and moan that they are so under-paid at service jobs meanwhile he's had sixty guys named Ramirez on some of his jobs that all arrived in this country in the last year or so. Truth is a lot of Americans look down on doing that kind of work even though it pays better than a service job, meanwhile the Mexicans can't believe their good fortune. The hardest thing my husband has had to teach them was that they had to stop offering to work Sundays for the same rate because it was causing problems with the other workers.