Unpaid Workers Signal Poor Management
Here’s the kind of thing that makes the construction industry look petty and unprofessional. Drywall installers in Jacksonville, FL haven’t been paid for three weeks because of a conflict between a contractor and a subcontractor. At least that’s the way it looks. The news report doesn’t specify whether either entity is the prime contractor or not, so it may be that it’s a conflict between a sub and a sub-sub. Regardless, people not getting paid while those who are supposed to be managing the project bicker with each other is one of those things that makes construction look like a second rate occupation. No wonder it’s difficult to attract people.
What does this say about the management? If one contractor says they were paid and the other says they weren’t doesn’t that send up a red flag to the owners? You have to wonder what other kinds of “money problems” are going on at the site. Tensions like these between major players doesn’t speak well for the project as a whole. The workers should be paid and at the same time a project-wide review should be taking place to find out what’s going wrong on this site.
