There are advantages to collective bargaining for management as well
as employees. One is the simplicity of dealing with all contracts and
work rules at once, and the improved stability of the workforce due
to uniform work rules.
If labor unions in Wisconsin and other states are dismissed by
legislation, the workers are then free to file individual breach of
contract suits, tens of thousands of them. Retirees can sue for
lifetime annuities to make up the difference. When the government
goes broke then the bond holders will have to pay up their share of
the pain. Dismissing the unions seems to me to be a stupid strategy.
Better to spend the money on energy development.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
