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Originally Posted by RichieLion
Where we might differ on this subject is when the conversation turns to public unions.
Private sector unions work for companies that must turn a profit to survive, so the union overreaches at it's own ultimate peril. New realities have resulted in private unions to adjust benefits and demands to compensate for the economic decline.
This is not the reality of the public union workforce. It's harder for the public union employee to see an government revenue decline as having any bearing on his renumeration.
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Differ? Maybe, maybe not. I was President of our local union, a unit of AFSCME, and later in management in the same public entity. I saw the need for the union in many respects but also did not agree how they would would support and defend employees who were so obviously deficient in their work habits, abilities and attitudes. But even in public entities the employer can sometimes take unfair advantage over workers. Perhaps not for greed, for power or whatever.