How to fight back against Public Unions: A Primer

Ed Lasky, in The American Thinker, has a long article you should read. Ed covers the subject of the overcompensation of the public sector:

Public employee unions will spend millions to try to defeat measures to rein in their bloated salaries and pension benefits. The threats of even longer lines at government offices (and fewer of them); shorter hours at libraries; park districts cutting programs; fewer policeman and firefighters. The list goes on and on of the plagues that will hit us if we dare take on public unions.

They never address high salaries, excessive days off, sick days being used because government employees are sick of work, or pensions being used to buy Pina Coladas in Pensacola.

Government unions spend vast amounts on this propaganda (and on lobbyists and political campaigns to elect politicians to put in their pockets) and the amount is now almost unknowable. Barack Obama , in the first few days of his Presidency, issued an executive order shielding unions from disclosure rules requiring them to report how they spend union dues.

But facts can be marshaled that puts the blame where it belongs. Public sector unions and state debt go hand in hand; states with the highest per-capita debt have the strongest public sector unions who have cut sweetheart deals with politicians. We should highlight how these unions have diminished our futures.

The American Enterprise Institute, CATO, Reason magazine, the Manhattan Institute's City Journal have all been publishing columns on the problems posed by public employee unions. Their websites -- and that of American Thinker and site such as Newsalert who focus on this topic -- are readily available , are open 24 hours a day, and the information can be found easily and after a few seconds (unlike, say, government offices).

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