re: #221 barflytom

It’s not as if they’re now primarily concerned with stopping child labour in coal mines is it ? Public employees should accept a trade-off between pay and job security, not expect to be paid more than private sector workers who have less secure jobs. Unions in the end are just protection rackets - “nice little corporation you got here… wouldn’t want anything to happen to it would we…”.

I’m not sure where your number regarding “paid more than the private sector workers” is coming from, but I can tell you that, as a private sector worker, I was making much more (over 2x) than my “age equivalent” public sector friends here in California.