Construction companies (especially ‘mom and pops’), once they are unionized, will not be able to accurately bid jobs while they are in negotiations since they will not know what their labor rates will be.

If an arbitrator mandates that they go into union health and welfare and/or pensions, that will dramatically increase their costs.

Most construction companies build their businesses by being competitive and having relationships with GCs. If a subcontractor becomes unionized, sees his costs significantly increase, he loses his business. Yet the unions won’t win that business either, as the work will likely go to another non-union contractor.

For the trade unions as well, EFCA (for them) is playing with fire. Since so many operate hiring halls that already have a large number of unemployed members “on the bench,” adding to those unemployed members will not help them either.

EFCA is a bad bill that will result in more unemployment. However, the construction industry is the one industry where you will see how bad this bill is very quickly.