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Public Employee Unions are a bigger cause of CA's budget problems. Excessive pension benefits are crowding out funds for actual services.
Where is that the Unions fault?
If the State agrees to pay a certain salary and certain pension benefits and never sets aside money to pay for those pensions why is it the union employees fault when it comes time to pay that pension?
Because it's common knowledge that public sector Unions are in bed with politicians who use them to buy votes. The Unions use the politicians to get contracts that the tax payers can't afford. In the end the tax payers, middle class and poor get screwed because public unions are on mass welfare.
Even FDR and George Meany realized that unionizing public employees is not in the interests of the public. There can be no fair collective bargaining agreements as the negotiators are all on the same side (and are making decisions on how to spend Other People's Money); and the public should not be held hostage to strikes denying services funded with taxpayer money.