There are key differences between PUBLIC employee unions and other unions. - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 18/10/2012 01:59:32 AM
The problem is not the unions, but the so called political system we have where everything is controlled by money.
Get rid of capitalism, go to a socialist economic system, reform our election system, and we won't have this problem.
Sorry, I'd rather have the people who actually do WORK have an influence on what happens in this country than entitled privileged fat-cats sitting in board rooms trying to figure out how they can screw over everyone else and make themselves even more obscenely rich.
Get rid of capitalism, go to a socialist economic system, reform our election system, and we won't have this problem.
Sorry, I'd rather have the people who actually do WORK have an influence on what happens in this country than entitled privileged fat-cats sitting in board rooms trying to figure out how they can screw over everyone else and make themselves even more obscenely rich.
Serious question, how is this good for society in any way? FDR was strongly opposed to public sector unions because of this dynamic.
The biggest is that private employees cannot vote out management for exploiting them. Unions give them collective bargaining power without which they would be prostrate to management; public employees have that power in the ballot box. One could even argue public employee unions are antithetical to socialism, because their often adversarial relationship is not with private capitalists, but, ultimately, with the entire public.