Your elected politicians are the ones who make up the rules and laws the government bureaucracy and government employees have to follow.Kath wrote:There is literally nobody representing the bill payer, here. In private unions, the workers bargain with the business owners, who have a vested interest in how much money goes towards labor.BjornP wrote: Why not extend him the labor rights of any other citizen?
Government employees are not known for their frugality. Nobody says, "hey, we need to save money! Let's hire a government employee!"
Put your children in charge of the household budget at your own peril. When you realize they've allocated most of the budget to cake, you'll get the point.
As for lack of frugality: I know, people here have posted statistics comparing health care costs of the US to European countries, and lots of stories of police departments funding military grade gear through asset forfeiture and other such government versions of get-rich-quick schemes. So.. your public sector has great flaws, no doubt about that, and your PSU's are likely part of those flaws. I'll accept that...
...but using a poorly run public sector as the justification for outlawing public sector employees to organize is not reasonable. The problem of incompetence and excesses, after all, is not the freedom of the publically employed. That's logically-wise akin to concluding that genocides happen because people are different, instead of happening because some people don't respect those differences.
