Even FDR Understood: No Collective Bargaining for Public Servants
“there are plenty of market and legal checks on private sector unions to keep them from abusing the public. The ultimate limit if they push too far is that their company will be driven out of business. Though that does happen sometimes,”
Sure, as in the case of GM (Government Motors), which taxpayers generously bailed out when the Obama administration decided to step in and take over. When the free market began to work its revenge after years of irresponsible behavior shared by GM management and the unions alike, their folly was rewarded by the government.
As for the current labor strife in WI, the solution for WI is to end the existing unionized monopoly of public education. Spending on public education is typically one of the largest components in local and state budgets. The state should encourage competition from charter and private schools by providing vouchers to parents of school children. if those schools are allowed to flourish, the ranks of the unionized public school teachers can be allowed to shrink by attrition if parents choose to opt out of the current system and enroll their children elsewhere.
