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March 13, 2011

What's The Right View With Collective Bargaining When Dealing With Government Unions

We all know and understand the truths about what the real gain or loss here is.

Firstly, can we just differentiate why public unions are the issue versus private unions.

Private Unions have their organization where they are able to negotiate terms of contract with the shareholders and/or owners, who they themselves are directly effected. Things can swing toward or away from your benefit depending on the private market which is the bases of contracts.  You answer more or less directly toward how good or bad your company/business is doing. So logically if things haven't been all to steady an owner may cut some benefits in order to keep everyone employed or may fire a few employees for the benefit of everyone else. Whether you believe this is right or wrong it comes down to private corporations to make those decisions when needed for the benefit of their company and absolutely no place for government.

While in fantasy lies our "love" of the Public Unions that work for the government. Now political correctness keeps us from charging the government unions with being lazy toolbags of the system and its corruption, so I'm just going to call them ignorant. Ignorant for their greed of privileges which they believe the government owes them. Misguided is the logic behind the unions demands for they work for the American people, for our hard earned dollars. These contracts should never hinder a boss (government) from firing an employee for disobedience or failure to properly and efficiently perform their job. Nor should union bosses be allowed to annually ask for raises and better benefits because both parties grant such wishes in order to get the vote, to please their constituents. This is already a flawed system that favors unions at
the public sector in order to take advantage at the expense of the taxpayers cash. Make the unions answer to the taxpayer and the markets not corrupt political bureaucrats!


In the end public unions should be abolished along with peoples notions that the government needs to run such programs. These utilities and programs should be left to private business and corporations to efficiently run with little if any oversight from government. The freer the system the more reliable the employers jobs will be along with the security of their benefits due to the free markets. Let the employers employ and the employees reap some rewards. For competition will keep the employees' rights in check just as much as overburdening government regulations already do. So one may raise the question of the need for unions anymore? Unions played an important roll back when employees were abused by corrupt bureaucrats. Luckily as history has progressed and the invention of the internet has come about the public is more alert, aware, and moved to act if infringements on employees are made.

Let Private Profit & Government Govern (limited) !  

1 comment:

Cletus Mudshaw said...

I agree, it's time we abolish these darned Public Unions. You are absolutely right to say that the private sector can provide more efficient, accountable services to the people. Take our recent economic/housing "situation" for example. Some would say (rightly) that the private sector argued for less regulation, which in turn lead to a glut of predatory lending & leveraging of credit default swaps, which in turn lead to the largest single day drop in the Dow Jones history. BUT, if we hadn't stopped there & re-regulated lending & home borrowing, these private corporations surely would have righted the ship & made this country much wealthier than it already is (see: GE pays $0.00 corporate tax & received billions in tax breaks)