Quote Originally Posted by cassiesmom View Post
Here's an editorial that helped me "get it" more with respect to the protests up in Madison, Wisconsin.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...7841218.column

Sorry, public employees, but the private sector is being asked to make bigger contributions to our benefit packages and pensions and we are also seeing our pension plans drop. It's been different for you. I get that you're being asked to do more with less... welcome to my world!
Cassiesmom - Again, I am not a fan of unions - I have worked with them, negotiated with them and fought them. But the article you cited - is about as one sided as it gets. The public sector employees surely need their contracts reined in - but I do not think it is right to destroy them. If they agree to the economic consessions - why is it necessary to destroy the union - to take away their bargaining rights?

The saying is that employers that get a union deserve a union. Unions are designed to balance the playing field between employers and workers.

And once the public sector unions are gone - they will go after the private sector unions. It is all about power.

An interesting side note- what governor of California signed the legislature that brought public sector unions to California? Ronald Reagan.

So - cut back the benefits of public sector unions at the bargaining table.

p.s. Here's an article from last June that may give balance to the issue. Destroying public unions is not being drvien by the so-called "budget crisis" in Wisconsin - it is a strategy of the GOP.

union busting