{"id":316,"date":"2010-05-10T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.146.49.248\/?p=316"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:52:10","slug":"contracting-business-opportunities-for-nonunion-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/contracting-business-opportunities-for-nonunion-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Contracting Business Opportunities for Nonunion Builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">How Nonunion Contractors Can Benefit from Storage Solutions at The Lock Up<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Recently in the Chicago Tribune, an article was published that described the decisions being made by large contracting companies to hire nonunion workers in order to keep their business&#8217;s afloat.\u00a0 Their intent on allowing nonunion contractors to bid on projects is simply based on the desire to get quality work at the best price.\u00a0 The article states, &#8220;most companies predict they can slash the cost of building a home by as much as 20 percent by shifting work to merit shops.&#8221; According to the most recent employment report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in the construction sector edged up in April.\u00a0 Assuming this employment trend continues, nonunion independent contractors will get back to work and now will have a greater chance of\u00a0 landing gigs with larger firms.<\/p>\n<p>The Lock Up Self Storage offers self storage solutions for contractors who may not have the space needed to store their materials and tools. The Lock Up also has specials from time to time depending on the <a class=\"advfancybox iframe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/the-lockup-self-storage-locations\">self storage facility location<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest publicly held building companies are now giving more nonunion merit shops the opportunity to bid on construction projects in order to save as much as 20 percent in costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9349,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/9349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelockup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}