Unions and Government: Oil and Water

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.