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Because public sector unions are not bargaining on the same footing or with similar power that private unions do. They have an undue influence over local electi
by Shivetya 11y ago
Because public sector unions are not bargaining on the same footing or with similar power that private unions do. They have an undue influence over local elections and in effect can hold local politicians hostage by it. There have been many documented cases where said unions used intimidation to include billboards and the like against any politician trying to reign in retirement and similar benefits back to reasonable levels.
- crimsonalucard 11y agoCorporations do the same shit from an opposite angle. You need opposing groups to form a balance; unfortunately in our society, things are heavily weighted towards corporate power.
- tamana 11y agoHow do public unions get more influence?
- dragonwriter 11y ago> How do public unions get more influence? Public sector unions operate in a way analogous to private-sector unions where the union members are mostly also shareholders of the corporation for which they are employed, and work together to lobby other shareholders for action as well as engaging in the usual collective bargaining approaches. This is rare (though not impossible) in the private sector, though there is a private-sector business model (the union co-op model) in which the union more power than in any public union situation, because the union workers are the entirety of the ownership group, not just an important and active subset of the constituency [0]. [0] http://www.geo.coop/story/unions-and-worker-co-ops-working-together http://www.geo.coop/story/unions-and-worker-co-ops-working-t...