[junta]

Unions meeting reality at a high rate of speed.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The entire country is meeting reality head on, and reality is a pretty ugly beast.

[Plumberman27]

I disagree. The unions there just negotiated themselves a good deal and now it is time to pay up. They made a deal, live up to it or get out of office. Maybe it is time some politicians take an axe and cut their pay before anyone. These so called public servants negotiated the deal with the union so it is they whom are also quite responsible for the outcome. It could be time that political figures are forced to return their pensions and retirements and also the free health care they get too to fulfill the contracts they signed.