most states are locked into a cycle.
They approve unions.
Unions charge fees to bribe politicians who approve their pay and bennies.
The pols they bribe approve higher benefits and pay
When the employees get more, the union takes more fees and increases the bribes.
Rinse and repeat
here is another one A union gets the public agency to tie their pay to the 3 largest in the state So Anaheim gets the average between LAPD, LASO and SFPD. When any of them get raise, Anaheim gets a raise. How do they justify it? We have to keep up, so our recruits won’t go to LA, as if they would.