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<blockquote data-quote="Audioeast" data-source="post: 17783" data-attributes="member: 194">Re: Working for CheapIMO a union (which is really price fixing of labor and a forced upon bill of labor with minimum head counts and hours) and &#039;&#039;pricing guidelines&#039;&#039; are two different things. If you go into a car shop and ask to have your carberator repaired, the look up what the part costs and what the standard time it should take...so if it says 1.5 hours they will typically charge you 1.5 hrs even if it takes them 25 minutes. I can then go to another garage and he may charge me only .5 hours labor even though he knows what the standard is. Standards and price fixing are not the same. No ones has to stick to the standard but have a reference of what the industry will charge. Look at doctors and hospitals! If thats not price fixing i dont know what it... Lets charge 5x what a procedure should costs because we know the insurance co&#039;s will only pay 25%. Thats wrong!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Audioeast, post: 17783, member: 194"] Re: Working for Cheap IMO a union (which is really price fixing of labor and a forced upon bill of labor with minimum head counts and hours) and ''pricing guidelines'' are two different things. If you go into a car shop and ask to have your carberator repaired, the look up what the part costs and what the standard time it should take...so if it says 1.5 hours they will typically charge you 1.5 hrs even if it takes them 25 minutes. I can then go to another garage and he may charge me only .5 hours labor even though he knows what the standard is. Standards and price fixing are not the same. No ones has to stick to the standard but have a reference of what the industry will charge. Look at doctors and hospitals! If thats not price fixing i dont know what it... Lets charge 5x what a procedure should costs because we know the insurance co's will only pay 25%. Thats wrong! [/QUOTE]

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