[Hoot Gibson]

I'm curious to see how the UAW and the government will settle their disputes and negotiate their next contract. I'm sure the unions will come out smeling like a rose and the tax payers will be crapped on once again.

:Thumbs: Politicians deal with unions like they deal with every other problem. They will throw more money to the union workers to ensure that there are no strikes.

Allowing government employees to form unions and then allowing politicians to negotiate effectively with their constituents on behalf of taxpayers is an obvious conflict of interest. That is why federal employee's enjoy much better pay and benefits than employees in the private sector do. The threat of job losses is management's equivalent of labor's threat of strikes. Take either threat off the table and you might as well allow one of the parties to brandish firearms during the contract negotiations.