A lot of our members pay well above the union rate. A lot of the cost associated with closed shops actually has nothing to do with wage rates. It's increased cost that had to do with paying into an endowment fund, a sports and entertainment fund, a hunting fund, a social justice fund, a political action fund—none of which goes to the worker. It's simply a tax on the employer and the project that gets funded through the local union.
If our members paid less, or if our members treated their workers poorly, there's an alternative. They would likely go and work in a union shop. But they choose not to. In the industry, 70% of the workers, despite all legal opportunities available to them, choose to be union free. The numbers speak for themselves.