The union can ask whatever it wants. It shouldn’t expect 1.6 million people to wallow in filth because 10,000 of its members are upset with their compensation. Yet public-sector unions can’t help but impose upon the public, which is why they should not be allowed to collectively bargain in the first place.
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Dominic Pino
Public employees in Philly got basically the same wage increase the mayor initially offered them, but their union stunk up the city first.
Public employees in Philadelphia got basically the same wage increase Mayor Cherelle Parker initially offered them, but their union, AFSCME District Council 33, stunk up the city first, with garbage workers going on strike for eight days. They shouldn’t have the power to do so, I argued in my latest piece for the Washington Post:
That might sound like a radical position, but it’s the one that prevailed in the United States until the 1960s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed the National Labor Relations Act and was one of the strongest proponents of private-sector unions in American history, opposed public-sector collective bargaining in the strongest terms.
Read the whole thing here.