Until government employee protesters started their whining in Madison, I never understood why unions, private or government, almost unanimously supported any party promoting bigger government. Does anyone think that union bosses at the beginning of the century even remotely imagined unions spreading
to government employees begging for benefit protection? They must be turning over in their grave!
Unions sprung up in the commercial sector to protect men, women and children from deplorable work conditions, and to improve pay. Did today’s government employee unions spring up to save state employees from the same plight of 19th century blue collar laborers? Are you kidding? Where is the precedent of state government workers being abused by the very own lawmakers they put into office? The private sector is different; workers don’t get to throw their bosses out every 2-4 years in free elections.
These unions are leeches, and they have made state employees weak and dependent on their inflated incomes and benefits. Of course these protesters support bigger government; that means more money for union bosses to protect a government work force addicted to its pay and benefits. As more people work for the government for higher and higher wages, the more government will control the private lives of American citizens. Their habit, which has no end, must be paid for.
If unions successfully circumvent this vote of freely elected officials, they are signing a citizen death warrant because the power of the American voter will have just been robbed, setting a dangerous and possibly unstoppable precedent.
Dan Wenceslao
Stanwood
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