Most government employees are unionized than the private sector. And you wonder why we are being screwed by the government:doh
Most Union Members Now Work for Government - NYTimes.com
Public unions are a total disaster for the US. I can think of few other issues that will destroy the country faster, with these diseased, wretched cancers plaguing the ability of government to function - and requiring ever higher taxes to support their endless greed.
The Real Engine of Blue America by Steven Malanga, City Journal Winter 2005
"But within this coalition, one group stands out as increasingly powerful and not quite in step with the old politics of the Left: those who benefit from an expanding government, including public-sector employees, workers at organizations that survive off government money, and those who receive government benefits. In cities, especially, this group has seized power from the taxpayers, as the vast expansion of the public sector that has taken place since the beginning of the War on Poverty has finally reached a tipping point."
Americans need to wake up and recognize that this metastasizing cancer is destroying the country's underpinnings from within, and the recent Oregon vote to increase taxes on the wealthy - in a state with over 11% unemployment no less, good job idiots - is a perfect example of this.
The public sector workers' unions including teachers, hospital workers, social services' workers, bus and subway workers, etc., are now receiving salaries and benefits far outstripping their private sector versions, and this situation has, as the linked article attests, has reached the breaking point.
Since cities are by definition monopolies, the services they provide are monopolistic, and therefore, their workers cannot be unionized.
It is time to take back the country from the Al Sharptons who prefer to keep the cash flows coming, and the union workers retiring at 45 with COLA-adjusted lifetime pensions and free health benefits...
