Are Public Sector Unions Doomed?
6th March 2011
Currently, many eyes are riveted on the battles taking place in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states where public sector unions are desperately fighting to hold on to their privileges. I don’t blame them for that–privileged classes generally find it easy to believe that their privileges are well-deserved–but, while the results of these battles are in doubt, I wonder whether the war is not, in essence, over. The reality is that we, the taxpayers, can’t afford public sector unions. And the unions and their members have nowhere else to go–no one else to sell themselves to, except us. So I think they are doomed.
March 6th, 2011 at 19:43
They are the only real question is whether they accept little cuts at the margins until they reach affordability or one big cut later where most of the jobs don’t survive.
March 9th, 2011 at 13:05
Are they doomed? We can only hope!