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Police Unions are a good example of contracts being a disaster for the customer "tax payer".

• tyingq 4y ago
  Yeah, I wasn't saying they were good for society. But they do seem to be good for individual police officers.
  • gitfan86 4y ago
    Yes, the downside for the average person is that they cannot get any of those jobs because the union only hires via corruption or nepotism
• justapassenger 4y ago
  Their “customers” deal with monopoly, that you’ll be imprisoned for life or killed if you’d like to challenge it. There’s 0 value in comparing police to tech workers.
  • tyingq 4y ago
    >There’s 0 value in comparing police to tech workers. It's a little more nuanced than that. The point was that a union doesn't necessarily need to please the company/agency, so contractual language around project completion, etc, may not be needed. Company pleasing language/rules/etc in a union contract would only be there because the union didn't have leverage for it not to be.