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Originally Posted by GGG
Iggy do you have stats on pay comparisons between Public Union positions and private union positions.
I remember seeing it somewhere but can't find it. I recall that private sector union positions make less than their public sector counterparts for comparable jobs.
So while unionization benefits the worker it shows that the government does not fight back hard enough in negotiations or that due to the lack of moral hazard the unions are more likely to negotiate harder.
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That's really the entire point. Any private business that is forced to pay these outrageous union demands will go under.
In the public sector, the unions openly bleed taxpayers dry. But they don't really care about the sustainability of government, there's no competition, and as long as their members are better off than the general public, they really don't care about the long term. Taxdollars going towards bloated salaries and pensions that should be building schools, roads and hospitals makes absolutely no sense in the current environment. Public sector unions need to be reigned in, and the UCP has some great ideas on how to remove their influence. That's why you're seeing the panicked public unions use so much of their forced union dues for political advertising lately.