I see a point in having unions. I really do. The thing is, a large part of what a union does is to make sure that the workers get a fair share of the profits of the business. When the business makes more money due to the workers, the workers make more money. Yahoo!
The problem is that Government is not a for-profit business, so public workers, who desire more money, are not taking a larger piece of a larger profit pie, they are actually taking a larger piece of the same size pie; that is, unless they enlarge the pie (take more income from citizens).
And the MAIN reason I get uneasy about public unions was finally verbalized a few days ago in an article I was reading. In a PRIVATE union, the workers are going to the managers (owners) and requesting more benefits or pay. They are two opposing sides. Management wants to keep the employees happy, but wants to make sure that the company keeps their profits high. In the public sector, workers are on one side and GOVERNMENT is on the other. And GOVERNMENT is usually elected BY the workers. Now, sometimes, such as in Wisconsin right now, the elected government has different views than the workers, and the tug of war is back and forth; MANY times, though, the government has the same views that the workers do, so there is no give and take…mostly just GIVE on the side of the government. After many years, and a recession, people realize that the GIVE was too much, and must TAKE some of it away.
Now, don’t get me started talking about GETTING RID of collective bargaining. If the Governor wants to balance the budget, I don’t know why getting rid of collective bargaining is his Achilles' heel. It doesn’t seem like collective bargaining is going to break or balance the budget itself.
To me, the guy just seems like a douche.
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