Double Breasted Union Laws

I'm looking for some good resources for obtaining information on running a union construction crew and a non-union crew simultaneously. Any help on this would be wonderful!

As far as I know you can run a non-union crew just about anywhere. The thing is if it's federally funded, you have to pay the worker's prevailing wage, but they don't have to be a member of a union. The other thing is if you are employing both union and non-union worker's the union won't like it.

I've done it, but what happened was really bad news. After the non-union folks worked at the site, the mechanical union members refused to do plumbing and electrical... I had an IN with the HVAC folks, but they did it nights and weekends so nobody inhouse but the management would know they were doing the work. It took an extra 12 months to complete and really badly affected my budget.

Another builder in the area used mechanical contractors from a town 70 miles down the road. Don't know if he had to pay excessive mileage charges plus travel time at the contractor's rate, but I'd bet it added a few thousand to the total.

I've also had the experience of requesting a UNION Contractor, only to find that he felt he had bid too low and refused to pay the crew's union dues.
When I had him back to do a 110 foot deck, he just grinned and told me what he had done that put him out of business.

So if you are in a union area where it is strong, don't fool with them. Do it UNION or you will have $$$ big regrets.... or wait until after the union contractors are done... then bring on the others and the artists.