Well, there’s a big part of the problem in many places. First of all there should be no unions for public workers. Secondly, a 15% raise sounds like an awful lot. Thirdly, how do they think they will have enough workers/taxpayers in the private sector to keep this scam going for long? Several other states are a good example of the same thing. More & more people will want to get in on a deal like this & after a while there are not enough real producers to begin to pay for it. The whole scenario is obvious & you shouldn’t have to look very hard to see it.
I should have read the article better the first time & I would have realized this was SEIU, not gov. workers. Still, it points out a big problem & the end result is that fewer & fewer people who have less than these union workers are having to finance their pensions while in many cases having none of their own.