Mayor Snorkum
Banned
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2011
- Messages
- 1,631
- Reaction score
- 317
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Libertarian
I don't think so. I doubt voters would put much thought into it. Pay for teachers and other civic employees needs to balance many different concerns that the public is unlikely to become informed upon. Better to have the legislature vote. Presumably the votes are recorded, so the public can correct any improper decisions through elections.
THAT's how all the states have gotten into the messes they're in with the unions. It doesn't work.
Amendments to state constituitons are required to ensure all government employment positions are open to all qualified candidates and union membership should not be a requirement.
The states have absolutely no business collecting dues for private clubs, and that includes unions. Unions must be responsible for the collection of due from their own members, and must bear the cost of doing so, also.
Public employees should be as subject to summary dismissal for poor job performance and absenteeism as any employee of any Subway sandwich store.
In a word, there should be no difference between how a public employee is treated and how a private employee is treated under the law.