| | All excellent points, Dr. Machan, especially where you say, "The fact is... that public service union members aren’t at all like private sector union members. They enjoy a legally protected monopoly."
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There is another flaw in the logic of the union supporters.
The pro-union people are talking about "collective bargaining" as a right. But that is different from the "right" to join a union. The right to join a union is an individual's natural right to participate in a contract, if the other party is in agreement.
Making a contract takes two or more parties in agreement to create any contractual rights.
No one has a right to force another to accept a contract. When the union people claim the right to "collective bargaining" it confuses a product of a valid contract with some presumed natural right that would compel one group of people to agree against their wills to be a party to a contract they don't want.
If I agree with parties x and y to let party x be the agent for party y in specific instances, then certain contractual rights spring into being. But later, if I choose not to renew that contract, it is over and those contractual rights disappear. Neither party x nor y can force me to continue those rights - they only existed when we had a valid contract.
Union supporters choose to ignore or deny that the refusal of a government to renew past understandings are the right of one party to not participate in a particular voluntary agreement. The "collective bargaining rights" are, at best, temporary contractural rights that are only alive as long as both parties are in agreement.
The taxpayers/owners are speaking through their representatives saying we don't want to continue this arrangement. The union supporters are saying, "We don't care, we demand the right to force you to accept our terms. We want to be able to get into your pockets by right."
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