I heard Anthony Sanders from George Mason University and The Mercatus Center speaking on collective bargaining for government and why it was an extraordinarily bad idea. He asked “Why don’t we permit collective bargaining for the military? Everyone knows that essential services cannot be covered by collective bargaining. So, only the unimportant government positions are covered like teaching. Basically, teaching can be done at home or on the internet. The unionized schools are unessential babysitting camps where students are taught about Marxism. Unessential and unwanted. That is why teachers getting $400k annual pensions is so outrageous. Unessential, part-time workers getting $400k per year.”
Teachers booed him. “The truth hurts, doesn’t it?”
I'll sign up for that job in a heartbeat.
But that wasn't the issue ~ we were discussing Roosevelt. What he said to one group he frequently un-said to another. He was a schmoozer, an asskisser, a politician with no bounds. But he did keep his promise to the Postal unions ~ they beat down the Commies and there was not one successful Commie union inroad into the federal government.
Sometimes people get carried away with the thought that since FDR ended up fighting on the side of the Russians in The Great War that he liked Commies.
No reason why he had to like them of course, and his efforts kept them out of adult politics in this country until their recent takeover of the Democrat party.
Barry isn't up to the job. This time we'll have to depend on a Republican President to beat down the Commies AGAIN.
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Even union icons such as George Meany, the legendary former president of the AFL-CIO, dismissed the workability of public sector unions as “impossible.”
And Sherk notes that other labor leaders were also skeptical.
“You had the AFL-CIO executive council in 1959 saying that, in terms of collective bargaining, government employees have the same right as every other citizen — to petition Congress for redress of grievances, but nothing beyond that,” he said.
And in Wisconsin, even the socialist mayor of Milwaukee in the 1950s, Frank Zeidler, opposed public sector unions.
He wrote that the rise of unions for government workers made it difficult for officials to protect taxpayers, warning that public sector unions “can mean considerable loss of control over the budget, and hence over tax rates.”
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