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Unapplied Labor in California? (The Missing Ingredient)

17 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short advice-style segment (YouTube video) about reducing "unapplied labor" in California. The speaker emphasizes that employers need minimum written requirements (a floor) — either in union contracts or hiring paperwork — to protect themselves against unapplied labor, noting that if such floors are absent technicians may effectively opt themselves out. Union agreements often include such minimum thresholds, but employers can also require them as part of hiring when they're not in a contract.

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Reducing unapplied labor. If you're in California, what's the missing ingredient, Hoagie. That they need to have in place to protect themselves? Minimum requirements. Yeah. So you just have to have minimum. Minimum requirements for what they flag or their efficiency, that sort of thing. And then that protects you. You got to have some sort of floor of. Of what you're willing to allow and accept. And it has to be in writing, informal. And then, you know, technicians fire themselves, basically, in that scenario. And then in union shops. So most of the time, in a union agreement, there's some sort of minimum threshold or requirements. I've seen them a couple of times where they don't have them. But you still, as part of your hiring, can make minimum requirements part of it. If it's not in the contract.