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You put the matter in a very good perspective. I have for years maintained that any and all unions under the banner of a public funded service should be strictly illegal. These unions extort monies from taxpayers who have no direct voice about what their services are worth at any time in any economic conditions. Public managers for the most part are useless as they know their jobs are highly dependent on thugs in the unions. Public unions wore out their societal usefulness soon after the 1930s turmoils.

You put the matter in a very good perspective. I have for years maintained that any and all unions under the banner of a public funded service should be strictly illegal.

"... Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ...

"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."

-FDR, 1937