"Public sector unions have long exploited taxpayers by pushing for higher taxes, higher spending, and generous benefits and extravagant pensions for government workers while opposing efforts to hold bureaucrats accountable.
...Although the public sector is much smaller than the private sector, public sector union members make up nearly half of all union members.
... 34.4 percent of the public sector was unionized while only 6.5 percent of the private sector was unionized.
...This past May, President Donald Trump issued three executive orders to deal with some wasteful bureaucratic practices,
- including public unions’ free use of taxpayer-funded office space,
- numerous federal employees conducting union business on government time, and lengthy firing processes for underperforming workers.
In the short term, Congress should at least allow for the firing of federal government workers on an expedited basis, while still providing due process rights, by immediately passing the MERIT Act.
Of course, Democrats can be expected to obstruct almost any effort to rein in public sector unions or to streamline the removal of incompetent bureaucrats..."
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Public sector unions should be abolished.
ReplyDeletePoliticians require votes, votes require willing citizens, willing citizens like more money, politicians can allow higher wages to the willing citizens in the union, and the taxpayer is screwed by the corruption. That, and the unions can use funds to support the politicians that will help them with their money grabbing.
In a more perfect society, such things would lead to a hanging at sunrise.