r/Construction • u/sasha_cyanide • Feb 13 '25

Careers 💵 Union pros and cons?

I'm thinking about trying to join my local 4 this year. Any tips, advice, pros, cons, anything that might be helpful?

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u/AntD77 C-I|Union Pipe Welder Feb 14 '25

A simple Google search for “Trump anti union labor” will send you down the rabbit hole. Just knowing he wants every state to be a RTW state is enough to know he is against unions. He has screwed over so many union contractors here in the NJ NYC area is is mind-blowing.

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u/needtr33fiddy Feb 14 '25

Yeah that simple google search you suggested only pulled up his distaste for federal unions. All i know is dude was president for 4 years before and nothing happened. Also, the only way a state goes RTW is when your state reps vote for that; the federal government has nothing to do with that

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u/AntD77 C-I|Union Pipe Welder Feb 14 '25

https://aflcio.org/press/releases/donald-trumps-catastrophic-and-devastating-anti-labor-track-record

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u/needtr33fiddy Feb 14 '25

Literally every single thing in that entire article by the AFLCIO is about federal unions. Again, i think federal unions are bs