[And in 1959, Wisconsin became the first state to grant public employees collective-bargaining rights, which influenced President John F. Kennedy’s decision to grant federal employees the right to join unions three years later.]
Wasn’t this done by executive order? What I don’t understand is why no Republican President has reversed it.
It sounds like you know the history better than I do. I’ve been disgusted through the years at the number of Republican politicians who have relatives in government employment, maybe that’s most of the answer. I know it seems here in DE that officeholders of either party consider their main constituency to b the public employees rather that the tax-payers. maybe that’s a consequence of their voting in higher percentage than the general public in low turnout elections like primaries.