Public Employees Should Not Have The Privilege Of Collective Bargaining

     There is a definite conflict the of interest when government employees elect the politicians who will set the rules for the negotiation of their contracts. Employees having that power is somewhat akin to holding a gun to your employer’s head while asking them for a raise. No public employee should ever have an opportunity for collective bargaining. Even FDR and George Meany agreed with that premise.
     Working for a public agency is entirely different than working for private industry. A private company can always go bankrupt or close up and go out of business. Government agencies cannot. Public employees have virtually guaranteed lifetime employment not afforded anywhere in the private sector. Having, this extreme power over their employers has resulted in the wide disparity in wages and benefits between the total income of public employees and comparably educated private employees; at times exceeding a fifty percent premium. We need to end unions ability to negotiate wage and benefit packages and never allow them back. Instead, total benefit packages and any increases thereof should be established as a percentage of private sector remuneration for comparable duties.

IMNTBHO
Dave Skibowski