How will the government function if management and labor are on the same side?
Having unions in government made no sense from the beginning. Government was better off under the patronage system. But to have your managers be part of the union is going to cause chaos. There will be no breaks on a system that is already out of control.
As a manager the last thing I want is to have more union membership because of the reasons we are all aware of.
But if the governor did this there is more to it than just shifting them like the article implies. Managers cannot be in the same bargaining unit as, the rank and file which means they would have to go through a process of creating a new unit, getting that approved, identifying the new members and their jib descriptions, then the members would have to ratify an agreement, and so on and so forth.
In other words this is done by more than a stroke of a pen.