A Short Comment on Public Unions
By Vedran Vuk
With the protests in Wisconsin, I’m again reminded of the inherent logical problems with public-employee unions. Labor unions were originally created to protect the worker from the evil capitalist employer. But in the case of public unions, there is no evil capitalist employer. In fact, the employer is the government. And government employees are usually the first to defend the government as a public servant of the common good. Well, if the government is such a caring and nice entity, why is a union necessary?
This all seems very problematic, but let’s take this further. If the public employees need unions to protect themselves from the “cruel” government employer, then what protection does the rest of society need? If the government won’t treat its own employees well, how can we rely on the EPA, OSHA and the SEC to do anything for the public good? So in a way, this becomes a circular argument that indicts the public employees themselves.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.~ Milton Friedman
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