Lifelong union member here, and I absolutely agree, and I would extend it to other public sector unions.
In decades of watching numerous negotiations and their aftermaths, something I believe strongly is that negotiations have to be adversarial to get outcomes that are good in the long term. The weight that public sector unions throw around in electing their own bosses is something that I believe threatens this balance.
I mean, in all the negotiations I’ve been involved in, I wish I could have threatened my adversary’s job by painting them in the media as hating cute little children and loving murderers and rapists or some such claptrap.
