Government employee unions are like the spoils system, for democrats only!
At least before it was fair, when in power each party but their own people in.
If it’s gonna be a true “civil service” it can’t be unionized when the unions are all part of the democrat machine.
Chicago government and all of Cook County has always operated on the spoils system. The father of the national party, Andrew Jackson, was a corrupter of the first order and without any irony a democrat. The Cook County Democrats were founded by Michael McDonald - a pimp, gambler, political boss and protean mobster.
Mayor Richard J Daley agreed with you and stated as much several times before the cameras. Who should he pick to run government? People who agree with him and his policies. It makes sense.
The government employee unions are simply following in a long tradition of normal self interest. The system has been in place since the beginning of America and is natural to human beings. The solution isn’t a ban on employee unions, although in the short run it’s all you have to kill the disease.
The solution is a very small government by US or state constitution (contract) and city charter. If government can only grant contracts to private enterprise you’ll soon end up with a class of rent seekers. It’s a natural progression. If the bidding process is transparent, objective, competitive and public you can stave that off a bit. America is up against Natural Law. It’s tough to fight that once government is so big.
Keep government very small, perhaps by constitution/charter limiting its expenditures to no more than 5% of gross state or local product or severly limiting taxation and debt. The solution isn’t easy and is completely dependent on an electorate that understands liberty and economics.
Every time we expand the franchise the number of voters willing to reject liberty and economics in favor of emotion and paternalism grows.