Though the rebuilding effort in the Guld Coast region is expected to attract scores of contractors, carpenters, and electricians from around the country, unionized workers from New England are unlikely to be joining in. President Bush's decision to suspend the law that provided contractors with high wages provides little incentive for unionized workers to head down to the Gulf Coast. Nonunion workers, however, appear eager to take the rebuilding contracts, even at low wages.
See "Labor chiefs shake heads at Gulf jobs", Sasha Talcott, The Boston Globe, October 3, 2005