Both FDR and leading union figures of that time strongly objected to collective bargaining against an employer funded by tax dollars from tax payers who are "Taxed Enough Already" (TEA)!!!
Private sector unions collectively bargaining with private employers for a share of the profits is at least somewhat justifiable, but not against public sector employers.
Public Servants unionized against elected and non-elected governmental organizations is an oxymoron. The elected overseers just don't want to be bothered and will rarely represent their electors who pay taxes through FORCE!!!
There is no such thing as fundamental fairness in this unwarranted indulgence in unleashing collective bargaining indirectly on busy taxpaying citizens who cannot be a party to the negotiations because they themselves have to hold down a productive job.
Governmental unions are the purist form of featherbedding just like railroad unions have done for over a century.
Hey Waspman, here we are again, with a new war, but a justifiable battle that needs to be waged..
This may be a war that these cretins wish they hadn’t started, AGAIN.. This time we should go for the jugular, and challenge the legality of public unions as a concept..
If an employee of the people can lobby, and intimidate their employer with the threat of paralyzing the needed service, where is the justification for having the service be a public run enterprise.. Just privatize the entire project..
Render government employees and Unions unneeded and therefore, unnecessary..
Chicago just settled the teacher’s strike. I wonder who took who to the cleaners. As Wisconsin and Indiana continue to move away from union political control Illinois will pay dearly.
You put the matter in a very good perspective. I have for years maintained that any and all unions under the banner of a public funded service should be strictly illegal. These unions extort monies from taxpayers who have no direct voice about what their services are worth at any time in any economic conditions. Public managers for the most part are useless as they know their jobs are highly dependent on thugs in the unions. Public unions wore out their societal usefulness soon after the 1930s turmoils.