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Old 03-05-2013, 08:42 AM
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UnderOveur
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“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
- George Meany, legendary Union leader, 1955

The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers.


F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable."


the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council’s 1959 advice: “In terms of accepted collective bargaining procedures, government workers have no right beyond the authority to petition Congress — a right available to every citizen.
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