Don’t Let Government Employees Unionize
Here is an article on the current illegal New York City transit workers strike which should remind us to ask why we allow public employees to unionize. Either the government is a benevolent social planner, in which case workers do not need unions to be treated well, or it responds to special interests, in which case workers will be treated too generously because of their political power and propinquity to the politicians. In either case, allowing them the monopoly power of unions, and the extortion power they get from the bottleneck position of most public employees, is bad.
By the way, if we let subway workers unionize, why not Congressmen?
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Quite frankly, while I can’t stand most unions, I would love to see a unionized Congress only because it might mean that they’d spend time on strike.