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**vladekad** · 02-17-2011, 01:52 PM

There is plenty of expected reason to believe that unions for public employees in terms of legal rights and expected treatment should be on the same terms.

The concept of unions themselves revolve around the idea of people having more bargaining power when they join together but now you're effectively saying to ignore the strength of certain unions and treat them all equally.

Why bother with unions in the first place?

What is nonsensical is saying it is ok to create legislation to force some unions to operate under restricted terms with others exempt. It is discrimination on union level and expect it to be challenged in that regard.

Heavy handed rhetoric aside, all contracts require union members to operate under restricted terms. That's exactly what a contract does. Calling it discriminatory would seem to mean one group is being denied something they have a legal right to have and I just don't see the argument here.

02-17-2011, 01:52 PM	#34
vladekad Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 445 Senior Member	There is plenty of expected reason to believe that unions for public employees in terms of legal rights and expected treatment should be on the same terms. The concept of unions themselves revolve around the idea of people having more bargaining power when they join together but now you're effectively saying to ignore the strength of certain unions and treat them all equally. Why bother with unions in the first place? What is nonsensical is saying it is ok to create legislation to force some unions to operate under restricted terms with others exempt. It is discrimination on union level and expect it to be challenged in that regard. Heavy handed rhetoric aside, all contracts require union members to operate under restricted terms. That's exactly what a contract does. Calling it discriminatory would seem to mean one group is being denied something they have a legal right to have and I just don't see the argument here.
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