Everything that Is Wrong with Public Sector Unions
Great article about the problems that public sector unions are causing. We need to cut the power of these greedy unions. Pass the link around, thanks.
Everything that Is Wrong with Public Sector Unions in Thirty Seconds
by Mike Flynn
http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2011/03/07/everything-that-is-wr...
This thirty second video will show you everything that is wrong with public sector unions. The budget debate in Wisconsin has forced a long-overdue discussion about public sector unions. Always a questionable proposition, unionization of the public sector, for a period, seemed a luxury we could afford. Yeah, public workers had job security and great benefits, but their pay was lower, so it seemed a fair trade-off. Over the last couple decades that implicit understanding was upended…public sector pay moved much higher and those great benefits were jacked up on steroids. Worse, we’ve recently learned that the benefits aren’t actually ‘paid for.’ As a result, we face the prospect of far higher taxes to meet these past promises.
This is the central problem with public sector unions. They get to use taxpayer money to elect their bosses and they get to use taxpayer money to convince their bosses to give them more taxpayer money.
Let’s recap where we are:
* We’ve allowed labor unions to become monopoly personnel providers for many state and local governments
* We force employees to make weekly payments to union leaders
* The union leaders use these payments to hire lobbyists to agitate for more government spending
* The union leaders use these payments to spend millions on campaigns to elect politicians
* The union leaders then negotiate with these politicians to set pay, benefits and work rules for their members
* The politicians know that if they cross the union leaders, their reelection plans are more complicated
* We fund the whole thing
If we can’t break this corrupt cycle, no other policy decisions we make will matter. Yes, it is that important.
Everything that Is Wrong with Public Sector Unions in Thirty Seconds
by Mike Flynn
http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2011/03/07/everything-that-is-wr...
This thirty second video will show you everything that is wrong with public sector unions. The budget debate in Wisconsin has forced a long-overdue discussion about public sector unions. Always a questionable proposition, unionization of the public sector, for a period, seemed a luxury we could afford. Yeah, public workers had job security and great benefits, but their pay was lower, so it seemed a fair trade-off. Over the last couple decades that implicit understanding was upended…public sector pay moved much higher and those great benefits were jacked up on steroids. Worse, we’ve recently learned that the benefits aren’t actually ‘paid for.’ As a result, we face the prospect of far higher taxes to meet these past promises.
This is the central problem with public sector unions. They get to use taxpayer money to elect their bosses and they get to use taxpayer money to convince their bosses to give them more taxpayer money.
Let’s recap where we are:
* We’ve allowed labor unions to become monopoly personnel providers for many state and local governments
* We force employees to make weekly payments to union leaders
* The union leaders use these payments to hire lobbyists to agitate for more government spending
* The union leaders use these payments to spend millions on campaigns to elect politicians
* The union leaders then negotiate with these politicians to set pay, benefits and work rules for their members
* The politicians know that if they cross the union leaders, their reelection plans are more complicated
* We fund the whole thing
If we can’t break this corrupt cycle, no other policy decisions we make will matter. Yes, it is that important.
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