My husband goes on long-distance HVAC trips
My husband goes on long-distance HVAC trips, and I hate it.
- My husband is an HVAC technician, but he is an HVAC technician that is part of an HVAC union.
There are a ton of benefits to being part of an HVAC union. Unions help to make sure that the workers that they represent are treated well. As an HVAC technician that works for a union, my husband gets paid a lot more by HVAC companies than HVAC technicians that don’t have a union. Sure, he may have to pay dues to the union, but the amount of money that he is paid by the HVAC company because of the union covers a lot more than what the union charges. My husband also has insurance and retirement, which most HVAC companies don’t offer. I know that my husband loves some of the aspects of being a union HVAC technician. However, there is one part of my husband’s job as an HVAC technician for the union that I don’t like. Sometimes, my husband is asked by the union to travel to different states for weeks at a time to do HVAC work in a different area. He spends months out of the year away from home doing HVAC work, and I hate it. We have a family, and I know that my husband wants to spend time with us. However, he has to do the long-distance HVAC work if he wants to keep his position in the union. Sometimes, the benefits that the HVAC union offers doesn’t seem worth it when we consider how much time he has to spend away from us. We have even considered having him leave the HVAC union because of it.