Well, if you believe that employees are a non-differentiated commodity, that's a great plan. Just don't plan on hiring any doctors, lawyers, engineers, MBAs or anyone else with skills or training that makes them more valuable than the median. Heck, when I finished grad school, the median would probably just about cover my student loans.
A better plan might be to make the case that unionization of public employees is contrary to the public interest and require that all public jobs be "right to work" jobs. Require government to pay fairly for employees based on the market, not the political pressure that their union creates.
“A better plan might be to make the case that unionization of public employees is contrary to the public interest and require that all public jobs be “right to work” jobs. Require government to pay fairly for employees based on the market, not the political pressure that their union creates. “
Absofrickingloutely!
Unions should be illegal in government period. I would like to see that changed in Wisconsin. I know ‘yeah right’.
The first thing Mitch Daniels did upon assuming the governorship of Indiana was to decertify the UAW as representative of state employees, which was his option under the state constitution.
They had been unionized under the “leadership” of former governor Evan Bayh.