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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (840913)3/6/2015 1:10:37 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 1574267
 
>> if unions kill jobs, as you maintain, then why have the number of gov't union jobs exploded under both parties?

My reference was to private sector unions; public sector unions encourage hiring at taxpayer expense and there is no safeguard to prevent it.

In the short term nothing constrains public sector employment because politicians only see an upside and they are unaccountable for the cost of it.

But the long-term view is what you see in Detroit. Unions push for higher and higher compensation until there is simply no money left.

It is going to happen in Chicago soon, where teachers make about the most money of any place in the country. They're not going to get those fat pensions the unions "got" for them. And at the end of the day there will be fewer teachers and a crisis.

The point you don't understand is this. Unions disrupt normal market processes. With the added pressure of political influence you end up with perturbations in the market that result in anomalies like major cities going broke. They can't control costs long term and the outcome is inevitable. We will see this spread through NY and California as well over the coming decades.

I'm not discussing this with you anymore unless you can bring some rationale to the table.
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