On Feb 25, 3:04*pm, Jonathan Cook wrote:

Jon, if I am not mistaken, the implications of your premise is that
public sector unions are only needed in non "representative democratic
republics?" But in "representative democratic republics" workers
should take it or leave it?

Further, you are not saying that whichever party elects its officials
should have the unfettered right to unilaterally set the conditions of
work, are you? And when another political party wins an election,
would the winning party get to reset the conditions of work, pensions,
health insurance etc etc? Or should this be the sole province of
executive branch public managers? Which ones of this sterling cast
would you willingly rely on for your family's health and welfare?

Sounds like a formula for chaos or at least instability. A look at the
number of public sector work stoppages pre and post the right to
collectively bargain is, I understand, instructive.

Dave
Former member Local 2112 Carpenters, and AFSME
Retired reluctant and successful capitalist
Work Union = live better
AFL-CIO = the folks who bought you the weekend, with their blood.
I post this in remembrance of my fathers organizer half brother,
beaten to death by company thugs and thrown in a ditch, . . . in this
"representative democratic republic."