FDR's Ghost Is Smiling on Wisconsin's GovernorSomewhere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is grinning past his cigarette holder (leader, state government)

[KoobleKar]

Somewhere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is grinning past his cigarette holder at Wisconsin's governor. They are on the same page regarding government unions.

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Roosevelt openly opposed bargaining rights for government unions.

"The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, "I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place" in the public sector. "A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government."

RealClearPolitics - FDR's Ghost Is Smiling on Wisconsin's Governor

[Motion]

I wonder if enough Americans are starting to see the differences between private sectors unions and public sector unions? The private sector unions have to take into account various things that the public sector unions don't when it comes to negotiations.

In the private sector, compensation and benefits are determined through negotiations conducted by unions representing employees and management representing shareholders. Neither side has influence over the other, and there is a healthy tension as each side works to increase its share of the pie. If unions don't deliver enough compensation and benefits, workers can make changes to union leadership. If management delivers too much compensation and benefits, shareholders can make management changes.

But in the public sector, no such healthy tension exists because unions can use campaign contributions to gain control of "management," which in California's state government means the 120 legislators and the governor who together determine employee compensation and benefits.

Should public employees have collective bargaining?

[KoobleKar]

Well put!! +1

[summers73]

That's amazing the Krugman Keynesian Klan is to the left of FDR.