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72 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 23h \ parent \ on: Are Government Unions As Scammy As I Think They Are? AskSN
My overarching sense is that every government department wants to increase its own budget year to year. There is no incentive to shrink. In a private business, money can't just be printed or stolen. I'm sure there are anecdotal examples, but I think the exceptions might prove the rule here. It is true that local and state governments might be constrained at times, but federally it's a free for all.
They're aligned on wanting more funding, for sure, but there are still areas where the managers would like to be able to dictate terms that the employees don't want to abide by.
I think there's more alignment than in the private sector, because there's no profit share being divvied up between ownership and labor, but there are still points of contention.
Trump's been on a tear lately, ripping up union agreements left and right, so they may not have ever had much bite. That speaks to your point that maybe there wasn't much pressure from the management side of the table until now.
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Oh for sure. But I think that's a problem for every agency, even the ones that aren't unionized.
I was more trying to think about the pathologies that are inherent to public sector unions, specifically
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