Wisconsin is raising hell in its attempts to balance a budget that's heavily weighed down by union-bargained benefits for public employees. Of course, they're taking the "nuke it from orbit" approach and removing collective bargaining rights from public employees
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The unions don't only protect your pay, they protect you from power-tripping assholes. :P
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I did not have a choice about being a union or not - if I want this job, I *have* to pay the dues. I would agree with the concept of letting people decide whether or not they want to be union or not except then you start running into intimidation issues and a weakening of the union's leverage to get things done, and then things are even more of a mess.
Perhaps if we made adequately funding education and public services a priority, we wouldn't need the unions around to get up on their soapboxes and yell about the problems we have.
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Another issue I have with unions in general is that compulsory element. If I'm OK with going it alone on my benefits package, why should I join the union? Why should the other employees get to dictate what I get paid? Why can't I keep my job if I'm willing to take less than they are?
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I suspect that was the reasoning behind the creation of the District of Columbia, which has no representation in Congress.
They wanted to restrict the influence of the workers who wield such great bureaucratic power.
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Taxpayers are in my experience only vaguely aware of what is going on in regards to all that at the best of times, and are usually blissfully ignorant. Which is probably good, because around here your average taxpayer thinks the public service is four times larger then it really is (sadly, that's not an exaggeration).
Its legislators who also cry poor while voting themselves a pay hike and a corporate tax cut.
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