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Old 02-17-2011, 03:17 PM   #38
dumadegg

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This is interesting....governments are established to support and provide various services necessary for the defense and general welfare of the public. Government service is, in every way, shape and form, public service.

One must at least consider whether those who choose to serve the public interest should even have the right to negotiate contracts when that service is the result of required government obligations. In a very real way it is like telling the taxpayer that they must not only fund a particular agency but also pay the service providers in that agency whatever they demand. The taxpayer (consumer) is supposed to be the one that gets to decide (at least in a general sense) what services they are willing to pay for and how much they are willing to pay. When unions come in and negotiate contracts for those services the taxpayer is completely cut out of the negotiation process.
Unions don't just "come in"; they are the people in the whole "we the people" phrase.

Without collective bargaining rights, public sector workers can be fired or laid off unjustly and on a whim by any elected bureaucrat with the inclination to do as they please.

Is that a scenario you look forward to? Total dictatorship by one elected body over a group of public employees?

Education reforms are a separate issue from the rights that public school teachers should be able to enjoy along with those of firefighters or the police. I have still to hear a rational argument that says teachers should be stripped of most of their collective bargaining rights while other public sector workers have their rights protected.
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