Yes, unions can screw up even a decent business model. When business looses the ability to define what it can offer to employees in pay and benefits as a take or leave it proposition, the business is doomed to fail. The employees, for the large part, haven’t a clue about the simple concepts of overhead, cash flow, margin, or capital expenses. It is like letting the inmates run the prison or the lunatics run the asylum.
Totally agree - the financial turn-around of Wisconsin’s school systems in the past several months should be all people need to know.