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Either at this point.

Are you looking into Phoenix or Tucson?

ya, I know........was down there in december visiting friends, and checking out living conditions...just need to set up a job first.

Anything near $1M will get you a 6 or 7 Bedroom mini-mansion with a 4 or 5 car garage out here.

canada yup.

pay cut is really not in the cards, but the cost of living here?? haha...this is the capital of 1million dollar crack shacks........and the taxes income tax ~44%

there is more to move than just pay for me.

good experienced journeymen are in short supply here, been avgeraging 50+hours a week

Originally Posted by indy2000

http://www.ua516.org/sites/default/f...0Agreement.pdf


I'm in the lower mainland page 19

these are Minimums

You're in Canada? I didn't know you guys where at $40+/Hr. How's the cost of living? You's be taking a pay cut coming down here. Are HVACR guys out-of-work up there?

http://www.ua516.org/sites/default/f...0Agreement.pdf


I'm in the lower mainland page 19

these are Minimums

What's the HVACR Service Journeyman scale wage where you're at?

i'll be packing my bags.

thanx for the info, perhaps I can buy you coffee/beer/drink

Service Journeymen-HVACR are in demand here, the Local Union Hall can't provide any. That's why street hires are popular here. The contract is kind of weird, if you're working non-Applied or under 100TR, that's Commercial Service. If you're working Applied or over 100TR, then that's Applied Service - the premium is $5/Hr. over Commercial. It's paid hour-for-hour. Also Tucson and surrounding counties are a lower scale wage than the rest of the state.

both

BT or Service? I don't know if there's any true BT-HVACR, there's a shortage of Service-HVACR - from Apprentices to Journeymen.

Is there a need for industrial/commercial refrigeration mechanics?

Call us what you want "HVACR Tech Service Journeyman", "HVACR Service Journeyman", "Refrigerationfitter", "HVACR Servicefitter", etc. or any variant. There's work in Arizona, don't always ask the Hall, you might get the response about 10s or 100s of guys sitting. I'll bet not many HVACR guys, especially HVACR Service. In AZ, there's no HVACR guys sitting. As a matter of fact, there's a shortage. The Hall can't fill any requests for dispatches in HVACR, that's why street hires are so popular here.

I've got about 3 days experience

I suggest any non-Union HVACR Service guys in Tucson with 10 years experience on Light Commercial Air Conditioning look at what they got going on. More than likely you're anti-Union or are just in the dark. If you're not over $29/Hr. with that experience, you're much better off working Union. POINT BLANK.

Yes, the ones listed on the web site. It would definitely be nice to land a job like that, I should probably look into it. I'm just saying, as far as companies that advertise and that I see driving around, they don't sound familiar. Not trying to say they are not good opportunities.

Which don't seem familiar? The ones from the website? 1st year Apprentice starts at $14.85/Hr. plus benefits. Do what you feel is right for you.

None of those companies sound familiar to me and I definitely haven't seen them around much, but there are so many companies out there, who knows. If you're into mechanical I know Sun Mechanical seems pretty big in Tucson. They do the U of A.

What ever you do, don't be scared of the Union. Go to the UA Local website and look for the signatory contractors in Tucson, there's about seven listed. Go inquire directly, there's two dispatches for Apprentices at two companies. Since you're not a Member, you can't be dispatched. If you're accepted by one of those two companies, you can join the UA after hire. Also JCI might be looking for a Service Tradesman, that's a locked in position equal, in pay, to a 1st year Apprentice except you don't advance.