People are always asking me how I can make so much money with all the high costs of a union contractor. First, I don’t look at them as high costs. I look at what we pay our guys as reasonable compensation, especially compared with what a lot of unskilled workers are making.
There’s an auto plant in nearby Janesville, WI, that pumps out Chevy Suburban trucks. Their unskilled and semi-skilled union labor force makes far more money and better benefits than most of our industry’s highly trained nonunion service technicians. How can they afford it? The answer is that the people who buy their vehicles pay for it.