We here in Upstate New York suffer the same legal monopolies and high costs of AFSCME and SIEU, due to rules made in Albany — but unlike NY City, we don’t have Wall Street and Manhattan property tax revenues to pay for it. It’s killing Upstate, but these groups are so entrenched in Albany, it won’t change. That’s why people simply leave this State.
Public employee unions are rotten to the core. The politicians who support them are scum. The “new energy” governor of Colorado pulled a fast one with an executive order authoring public employee unions. Supposedly, strikes are forbidden. However, public employees are never punished (except by Ronald Reagan) for strikes or other work actions so the ban is meaningless.