The unions fail to realize that there is no more money. The cost of salaries and benefits keeps escalating and the revenues decline.
Our public unions had to accept reality on this and take a pay cut and pay more of the costs of their benefits. The County had already layed off a quarter of the workforce and given early retirement incentives in prior years. Staff was insufficient to perform required functions without delays and stringent prioritization. We could reduce staff no further.
All but one union eventually accepted the cuts. The one union wanted raises and increases in benefits. What planet are they living on?
These unions just don’t get it.
I think they get it.
Like certain corporations, they have made the conscious decision to align themselves with the government rather than with the citizenry, rather than with their customers.
I think they know that their jobs will continue to decline and that, as more and more companies go out of business/go bankrupt, their pensions will vanish.
They are aligning themselves with the Democreeps because they know the Democreeps will do anything (even steal a presidential election by electronically switching votes from Romney to Obammie the Commie) to stay in power.
And if they are aligned with crooks like that, they know the government will steal the private retirement accounts (read: 401Ks) from the private sector and give it to the unions to save their pensions (national interest, to keep the government up-and-running, economic justice, we can’t afford “austerity riots,” it’s the patriotic way — take your pick which excuse(s) they’ll use).
PROTECT YOUR PRIVATE RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS, FRiends. I predicted six years ago that they’d be coming for them, and they will.