But what on earth is the justification of unions for government employees? Seems to me it should be against the law for government employees to unionize, and that therefore all government employee unions should be immediately decertified and disbanded.
Since it is a well established fact that the government is completely benign and totally dedicated to the welfare of the people, how can it be seen as an exploiter of its workers, and why on earth would they need protection when there are no greedy private capitalist pigs to do the exploiting?
Hmmm?
Earlier this year, I read a great book about “The Education of Ronald Reagan” which talks about his years working the “rubber chicken circuit” as PR spokesman for GE during the 1950’s and early 1960’s. One of the primary reasons GE brought Reagan into this position was to help in their periodic union elections and negotiations — at the same time, he was sharpening his stump speech promoting free market capitalism and opposing collectivism and its many permutations.
It struck me that not only was Reagan instrumental in winning the Cold War with almost no help from the liberals/Democrats in Congress, he also was instrumental in shrinking the membership and influence of organized labor as well. Two of the great threats to American society defeated by President Reagan! What a legacy.
of course.. otherwise the teamsters would have been at the mexican border stopping the trucks physically.