I dislike unions in general. I think they're a terrible compromise in response to a monopolized labor market. You should deal with the monopoly, not create y

I dislike unions in general. I think they're a terrible compromise in response to a monopolized labor market. You should deal with the monopoly, not create your own monopoly of labor. Anyways, in cases where the employer has an unnatural monopoly and you can't otherwise address it, unions make perfect sense. The employees otherwise have no secure mechanism to legitimately and successfully negotiate their contracts. Your only other way out is to privatize the police force to a large extent and allow competition between different agencies for different city contracts. Then you would have true market forces benefiting the city and the labor.