We must decide that organizing government employees is illegal, and that public labor unions must be abolished. Why? Because balance of power, or balance of will, does not exist. In a corporation, if management gives in too often over an extended period and resulting work rules, wages, pensions, and benefits choke the company, there are several potential outcomes to adjust and correct. Management, recognizing the company's financial limits, convinces the union that there have to be changes and an accord is reached to keep all entities alive. Or a bankruptcy court mandates a diminishment of some provisions of the labor contracts, as well as hacking into the rights of secured debt, unsecured debt, and equity holders. Or the company fails and everyone loses.
In government there is no balance of power or of will. The unions are permanent, they persevere, they wear down any elected opposition. Their counter-parties--elected mayors, governors, commissioners--know that they will be skewered in the media and within the electorate if they try to rein in the negotiated contract provisions on seniority, work rules, pay, and pensions. No benefit accrues to the elected officials for taking them on: au contraire any such action results in creating a vocal, loud and powerful enemy. Here are some examples:
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