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It's the same in telecom companies in California. They can let us go for no reason at all. Typically, they hire triple the amount of people needed and work all of them less hours. Here, if there is no union, there are no seniority rights, so us old-timers in the company get about 25 hours a week, just enough to keep the companies from having to pay unemployment benefits for us. Typically, it was like this: Go out and start the next construction job. As soon as the design work and the cable routes were established and the big cables were installed, out for the old-timers and in for all the minimum wagers for the rest of the job. Promises made to the customers that qualified personnel would be on the jobs were totally ignored and many jobs went bad after we went home. But it takes on the same claim that Texas has, that more jobs are created after imposing these "new rules", so the governor can take credit for the number of people working, but no one makes enough to pay all of their bills and the customers do not get better quality. This is hippocrisy at its worst and only serves to weaken union and private worker benefits even more in exchange for the additional profits the corporations will make.