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Public and private sector unions are very different beasts from a power point of view. The employer in the public sector case is not a profit maximizing capital
by bradleyjg 6y ago
Public and private sector unions are very different beasts from a power point of view. The employer in the public sector case is not a profit maximizing capitalist but the workers’ fellow citizens. Moreover, it’s well known in political science that concentrated interests are more likely to have their policy preferences enacted than diffuse interests and the interests of workers in their pay and conditions are much more concentrated than those of taxpayers in general government efficiency.
- etripe 6y ago> The employer in the public sector case is ... the workers’ fellow citizens. How is a private sector employer not? Are you alluding to the difference in affluence?
- bradleyjg 6y agoIn the private sector case it might be some fellow citizens, though it need not be, but that’s qualitatively different from all your follow citizens democratically represented. All the theoretical arguments for unions are predicated on the relationship between labor and capital that doesn’t exist in the public sector.