AFL-CIO Wants to Fix Labor's Image

but the most entrenched unions today are the public-employee unions. And there is no sign they going away---since everybody who works in the public sector knows how capricious the mid-level supervisors of government enterprises can become. You want to teach for some school-board-pressured principal with no union? Not if you have a modicum of wits. You want to be a cop for some city-council-pressured chief with no union? Same answer.

As for the first comment below that unions drove the jobs out of America----I'd invite you to consider whether it was more likely the greed magnet of high-end tax cuts that evaporated your jobs. After all, an empirical case could be made that the less the private-sector work force was unionized in recent years, the FASTER the jobs have disappeared. But those tax cuts that were sold to you for job "creation"? Well, you still have ALL of them---and what's your result?

Muser of NM 2:23PM September 10, 2009