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Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Daniel DiSalvo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199990751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits. The unions defend tooth and nail the generous compensation packages and extensive job security measures they've won for their members. However, the costs they impose crowd out important government services on which the poor and the middle class rely. Attempts to rein in the unions, as in Wisconsin and New Jersey, have met with massive resistance. Yet as Daniel DiSalvo argues in Government against Itself, public sector unions threaten the integrity of our very democracy. DiSalvo, a third generation union member, sees the value in private sector unions. But in public sector, unions do not face a genuine adversary at the bargaining table. Moreover, the public sector can't go out of business no matter how much union members manage to squeeze out of it. Union members have no incentive to settle for less, and the costs get passed along to the taxpayer. States and municipalities strain under the weight of their pension obligations, and the chasm between well-compensated public sector employees and their beleaguered private sector counterparts widens. Where private sector unions can provide a necessary counterweight to the power of capital, public employee unionism is basically the government bargaining with itself; it's no wonder they almost always win. The left is largely in thrall to the unions, both ideologically and financially; the right would simply take a hatchet to the state itself, eliminating important and valuable government services. Neither side offers a realistic vision of well-run government that spends tax dollars wisely and serves the public well. Moving beyond stale and unproductive partisan divisions, DiSalvo argues that we can build a better, more responsive government that is accountable to taxpayers. But we cannot do it until we challenge the dominance of public sector unions in government. This carefully reasoned analysis of the power of public sector unions is a vital contribution to the controversial debates about public versus private unions, increasing inequality, and the role of government in American life

Author: Daniel DiSalvo
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594035911
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the unseen collective-bargaining-rights revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. These unions are different and more powerful than those that battle owners and managers in the private sector. To advance their interests, unions in the public sector have created cartels with their political allies, mostly in the Democratic Party, to the exclusion of the taxpaying public. In this Broadside, Daniel DiSalvo shows us how this government takeover happened and tells us what can be done to protect the public interest. The fiscal consequences have already proven dire and threaten the long-term power and prestige of the United States on the world stage.

Author: Philip Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685157688
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: James L. Perry
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Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: American Enterprise Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Author: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Public Review Board
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
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Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 1620

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