Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 24, 2015
July 23, 2015
July 25, 2015
Transcript:
Mrs. Olsen: Another state is going after teacher pensions. Frazz: You think ours is next? Mrs. Olsen: Not if I can help it. 35 years of receipts for classroom supplies I bought myself. What's the governor's address? Frazz: Oh, please let me deliver them.
In private enterprise the union represents the employees, and management represents the owners. The problem with governmental employees being unionized is simply that the union represents the employees, but the person negotiating with them represents no one, and in fact is a fellow governmental employee, and might even be in the union, and the taxpayers aren’t represented at all, so things can get out of hand. As a result, in the early days of unionization it was generally accepted that unions representing governmental employees weren’t appropriate.