[chadwimc]

Wait a minute people. There is another side at that negotiating table. Somebody has to approve any contract, right? Am I right?

[Beagle8U]

“Wait a minute people. There is another side at that negotiating table. Somebody has to approve any contract, right? Am I right?”

Sure there is, and in many cases the union is setting on both sides of the bargaining table.

Take school teacher contracts for example. Most school administrators are former teachers that are covered by the same contracts that are being voted on. The school boards in most states are made up of nothing but teachers, former teachers, and wives/husbands of teachers.

School board elections are in most cases held in off years or in spring when there is nothing else on the ballot.

The deck is stacked so hard against the taxpayers that teachers unions can get anything they want.

[chuckles]

No, the union sympathizers were on the other side of the table also. If your spending someone else's money, why would you force a strike? Just give them the money, it's not yours after all.

The reason for the trouble in the first place was Kasich didn't want to lay people off. The union said NO CUTS, even if it means lay offs. Kasich should start the line up for lay offs today to make his point. They voted for them.