EDITORIAL: Us vs. them unions - Washington Times
The question is, who is guarding the hen house?
When a private union goes to the bargaining table, the businesses are on the other side. These opposing factions keep prices as low as possible while keeping quality (through skilled labor) high. The consumer wins in the long run.
When a public union goes to the table, who sits on the other side? Technically it is supposed to be the taxpayer, but of course there are no actual taxpayers there; their representatives, politicians, are the ones there.
How do they get the job? By being elected.
How do you get elected? You spend the most money to get the most advertisements to get the most votes.
Where does that money come from? If you are a Democrat, most of it comes from the public unions (8 billion from the teacher's union in the last decade alone).
That is where the problem is; the ones who benefit the most from making the unions happy are the ones who are supposed to be their opponents at the bargaining table.
Today, 40-50% of every state's budget goes to the schools. Other unions take even more. Retirement funds alone are well on their way to bankrupting most states.
There must be some sort of control to keep the public unions from "benefiting" us taxpayers into the poorhouse. If you can think of a better idea than limiting public union's collective bargaining, I am sure the governors of every state would like to hear it.
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