Swank is union. If they have a weld shop, you'd need to be a member of Ironworkers local 3 to work in it.

When you say "contact the labor board," what do you mean? The PA Labor Relations Board only deals with disputes related to management and unions not covered by the NLRB, and if OP has a union, they shouldn't be coming here with questions they should be taking to their union instead. This advice is not helpful because the PLRB probably cannot help OP.

Legally, without a contract stating otherwise, your employer can absolutely fire you for refusing to work 12 if you're scheduled for 8. You'll get unemployment, sure, but they can fire you. The answer to this is right on theFAQ at the Department of Labor and Industry (question 5).

I agree that the mandate to work overtime is bullshit and hate that employers are allowed to get away with it, but that's labor law in just about every state in this country, PA included.

I am currently working on the new terminal and started driving for Uber because I figured someone would want a ride to the airport every morning, right? There are at least three other guys I know of who log into uber every morning at about 4 and set their destination to the airport (and I don't know a tenth of the guys at the job).

There was also a lot of early airport traffic long before we started work on the terminal. You should be fine.

My standard is read the fucking linked article before you say something stupid and you're the only one who failed that.

Their names are in the article you illiterate racist donkey.

Absolutely nothing if you think everyone can be working at the same time.

My biggest pet peeve is when someone who knows absolutely nothing about construction goes online and pretends to know enough to assess what every worker is doing.