Originally Posted by
Radials Rule
I see it as rank and file workers negotiating with management. The employer/employee relationship is still there. Saying that police, teachers etc. is the government is a stretch. Thus, no conflict of interest.
Except the management isn't negotiating with THEIR money as a private entity does. The "management" (government POLS) are "bargaining" with monies (taxes) taken in a progressive percentage system under the threat of sanction and imprisonment from others (taxpayers). The "rank and file" (public union members) returns some percentage of those monies to the "management" (government POLS) in the form of political contributions from the public unions (involuntarily from their members), often in exchange for preferential treatment from the very people they are negotiating with.
For example:
"SEIU alone has spent at least $187 million through combined lobbying, PAC and 527 group donations and expenses on candidates and policy issues – nearly 100% of which went to liberal policy initiatives and candidates."
So taxpayer money is funneled back to the very politicians "management" who are negotiating contracts with the "rank and file". The more the "rank and file " gets in negotiations with "managment", the more "management" gets back. Good thing the "corporation" has a budget surplus...oh wait...they don't.
What could possibly go wrong?