Hot take · 9:09
// THE QUOTE
“that's the hard part i mean we there's no escape there's no escape”
— Guillaume Tremblay · GT Painting Inc.
The 'race to the bottom' candor — relationships don't protect you, you just have to be cheapest and bend over — lands hard for any sub.
Full episode at 9:09Why Painters Are the Banks of Construction — and Why No One in Atlantic Canada Wants to Fix It | GT Painting ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Sub-trades are effectively the cash-flow banks of construction projects — they front labour and material and are paid last; adequate working capital or credit facilities are not optional.
“we are the banks of the construction the sub trades as a whole we put out the labor we put out the material and we sit and wait”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Workforce crisis: no apprenticeship, no accreditation, chronic retention failure
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SOURCE: 9:09 of Why Painters Are the Banks of Construction — and Why No One in Atlantic Canada Wants to Fix It | GT Painting