The government worker’s union is protecting the workers from their employers?
Well, the employers are the people that they are supposed to serve, the ones who pay the taxes, thus their payroll. The government unions thus protect the “workers” from being accountable to their employers, which is you and I and everyone else.
You see this in some big city police departments, especially in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where political agendas take precedence over professionalism. In such cases the unions’ mission is to advance the political agenda and enforce that the rank and file toe the line, not to negotiate a decent contract. It has been this way since the AFL-CIO removed from their bylaws the ban on Communists being officers in the organization. And Dick Trumka is a Communist.
I will bet any money if the average worker in private industry was making more than the average worker in government, Walker would have lost.
It is no more complicated than that.
In actual reality the government workers make 30% more than their counterparts in private sector for equivalent work. That is simply unfair, unsustainable and unwise.
All public service organizations being subsidized by taxes should be/must be free of organized unions. The public must have voting control over these organizations. The public no longer can trust appointed administrators to serve it’s interests because they become contaminated with the same greed for taxpayer money.