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04-11-2012, 12:34 PM
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da Home-builder -- Moderator-at-Large
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Welcome, Ralph. 
How 'bout putting a bit of information into your User Profile so folks can see what sorta fella they're having this discussion with.
You do recognize that this thread was more than five years old, so any price or wage comparisons would be a bit skewed with current numbers, yes?
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04-11-2012, 02:06 PM
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Karl Marxist-Gettin ready for the Revolution
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Welcome to the Forum Ralph... It's a common mistake that people make.. The last post to that thread was in 11/06...
So you're a tile setter? GO to the Pros Hangout and introduce yourownself. We're a friendly Forum here...
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04-11-2012, 03:08 PM
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da Home-builder -- Moderator-at-Large
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Mmmm, Frank? Really hate to wake you like this, ol' buddy, but this is the Professionals' Hangout.
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04-11-2012, 03:20 PM
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Karl Marxist-Gettin ready for the Revolution
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The UNION thing threw me off..... 
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04-11-2012, 03:24 PM
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da Home-builder -- Moderator-at-Large
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Well, now that you mention it, I'll move it to a more appropriate forum.
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04-11-2012, 05:07 PM
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No one of consequence.
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It is interesting to see the near universal assent on the board in '03 and '04 about our industry being "recession proof". I bet there would be some who would take exception to that now... 
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04-11-2012, 07:26 PM
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Tile Contractor & Trowel Monkey
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Keep in mind, for all of the Union bashers out there, that the Boston wage scale is not applicable to the rest of the United States. Some of the complaints I've heard about the halls in Boston is that the wages are great but that there isn't enough work at that rate to keep people working full time.
Shaughnn
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04-11-2012, 07:40 PM
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Tile Contractor
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That's just the problem, Shaughnn--the union doesn't care. They're out for the union. Period. If they happen to help their members in the process, so be it, but that's not their main goal.
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Well, now that you mention it, I'll move it to a more appropriate forum.
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Yeah-- the circular file.
Oh-- and Nate, as for this industry not being recession proof, I said years ago (about the time of this thread originally) that a recession would be the best thing that could happen to this trade, because it'd shake alot of the rats loose that were just here for the money, thereby making the trade alot better. Now, I forget the magazine-- might've been one of the financial rags-- the tile industry is rated the 4th strongest growing trade in the country. No joke.
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04-11-2012, 07:43 PM
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Karl Marxist-Gettin ready for the Revolution
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Now to be fair Shaughnn.. I did not do any bashing.. I thought I was very nice about it...
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04-11-2012, 07:55 PM
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Issaquah Washington Tile Contractor
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I know a couple of guys in the union. What I hear is that they took a cut in pay and still most are on unemployment. There's only a handful of them working right now, and I mean a handful.
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04-11-2012, 08:00 PM
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Tile Contractor
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But I bet the local's not taking any excuses for late dues.
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