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Originally Posted by ubertuber
bear,
I might agree with your attitude if workers weren't organized. Meaning, if they individually felt they weren't being paid enough, they could threaten to leave. If their employer missed them enough, they'd get what they want. This is how negotiations work in at at will setting. However, essential public sector employees can hold society hostage whether their demands are reasonable or not. What if policemen struck because the city wouldn't pay them each $1,000,000 holiday bonuses? Would we then have to fire all of them and be without police protection until replacements were trained? THAT doesn't seem right to me. Your argument only makes sense to me if you assume that everything a union asks for is within the realm of reason. Do you think all policemen should get holiday bonuses of $1,000,000?
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I don't think policemen should get holiday bonuses of a million dollars. And while I bet, most policement also do not, those that do, would get fired, the rest would go back to work, and the greedy ones would be replaced. Very little disruption of "society." I think. That's the market place. Jobs for those who will work. When you can't fill the positions you need you widen the job pool by lowering standards, or ideally increasing compensation packages.
By the way, there is no police protection or responsibility of the police to protect...this has been decided in a number of Supreme Court Decisions. Just saying is all.
Let's look at the ATC strike during Reagan's era. He fired all of them. Some were allowed back. Sure Air traffic was effected for a fair amount of time, but things returned to levels far better then before the strike. Society took a hit, albeit a realtively insignificant one, and came out better and STRONGER on the other side. A better pool of ATC's now man the nations airways. That's economics, and market forces working together to make improvements.
I like that the ATC union went on strike. I was impressed with ~their~ conviction and dedication to ~their~ cause. I was also impressed with Reagan's handling of the situation. We ended up with some out of work ATC's and some new ones. All in all the Air Traffic Control System and society is better for the action...from both parties as a result.
Hey, that's just how I see it.
-bear