Even FDR Understood: No Collective Bargaining for Public Servants
I think I see and agree with your basic point without agreeing with your solution. It has become clear that in some areas of the public sector, there need to be some better means in place to go about firing people.
I guess the trick is that the government is usually supposed to be the referee and not take sides, but that in the public sector the government is unavoidably on a side. When the unions spend so much money that they receive by unfair means to get politicians elected, nobody is really representing the taxpayers. However, I think federal right-to-work laws or right-to-work laws in every state would cause unions to lose a lot of money and power. Government employees are taxpayers, too, and they also write household budgets, and love their country. The unions, with some of their tactics, also make their own enemies. If right-to-work laws go into place, the system should no longer be rigged and politicians will have to actually represent the taxpayers in union negotiations.
