[TheRealThing]

Hoot, the Greedy and Corrrupt CEO's and boards of a lot of these banks, firms and corps have done 100000000 times more damage to this economy than any union. Im not saying there is not some issues to take with some of these unions. Unions are obviously necessary but the political machine they have become is going to far.

A good local example is KDMC, look what has happened there with the greed and poor decisions coming from the top.

I can understand unions in the workplace. Take the mining industry for example. That environment is fraught with hazards that can adversely affect the worker immediately or even through long term cronic illness. In that case, and in the construction trades and industry in general, unions are good and even neccessary.

When one considers the professional ranks among us though, it seems unlikely they are neccessary. When teachers go to school to work what hazards do they really face? Spitballs? Likewise in state, federal and other professional work environments, they are a gross misapplication of what unions were created for. Really, what parent is going to insist that their kids must go to school 12 hours a day including weekends? Or require lawmakers from Wisconsin to stay in Wisconsin in lieu of Illinois? LOL

Giving firefighters certain power down in Georgia resulted in some firechief or captain or whatever making the decision, at the scene or the tradgedy no less, to allow a families' house trailer to burn to ground because they hadn't made their fire protection payment yet. Fearing the same rationale by other crucially important service providing entities, certain things in our society are not acceptable. Medical workers shouldn't strike, police shouldn't strike, firefighters shouldn't strike, teachers shouldn't strike or go off and protest for days or weeks on end. Why workers at a steel mill and not government employees? Because, workers have the right to say hey, I'm not rolling steel for chevys for $25.00 an hour anymore. I want $27.00 and I'm willing to stop working till I get that. On the other hand many professional people are paid very well, thank you very much. So, do people who provide life and death services to our nation's citizenry morally have the right to hold those folks hostage untill they get their way, ala some bank robber caught in the act?
I mean what's next? Will police departments in Texas go on strike for luxury pensions during an invasion of drug lord forces from Mexico saying we won't defend you all till we get what we want?

Everybody wants everything. To use unions as the springboard to Shangra-La is unrealistic to say the least. When state, federal and local government officials have to start answering to the unions things have indeed gone too far.