One of my best friends was a lighting tech with a major stage production that traveled all over the world. He ALWAYS came back with CRAZY stories about working with the Stagehand Unions. One story was about the show having to start almost an hour late because the set up was shut down in the wee-hours of the preceeding morning while waiting for a union supervisor and a house electrician. The cause of the dely was that the traveling crew wasn't allowed to stick a common 110 plug in the theater wall without union assistance. Here's the kicker: They had to pay the electrician overtime to come-in during non-shift hours.