{"id":10571,"date":"2023-04-30T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2023-04-30T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:58:37","slug":"public-sector-unions-are-trampling-our-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10571","title":{"rendered":"Public Sector Unions Are Trampling Our Public Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The California Teachers’ Association is the most-powerful voice<\/a> in education. Police and fire unions are the best-funded and most muscular political players at the local level. The prison guards’ union has an inordinate influence on corrections policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unions aren’t entirely to blame for California’s myriad problems and crises, but they provide a heckler’s veto to any reform idea that could realistically improve public services. Consider how vociferously teachers’ unions opposed school reopenings<\/a>. Lawmakers rarely propose any idea that would antagonize any of the state’s easily antagonized unions. Imagine running a business where the employees could immediately quash any proposal that might help consumers or reduce operating costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Through their extensive political activity, these government workers’ unions help elect the very politicians who will act as ‘management’ in their contract negotiations\u2014in effect handpicking those who will sit across the bargaining table from them,” noted<\/a> Daniel DiSalvo in a 2010 article in National Affairs. No wonder California’s municipal firefighters earn on average more than $200,000 a year\u2014even as the state complains about an inadequate number of firefighters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public Sector Unions Are Trampling Our Public Services<\/a><\/blockquote>