All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. Franklin, D. Roosevelt http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445
It is clear that FDR was not as far left and radical as Obama. FDR "only" wanted a big government while Obama seems to be deeply in love with revolution - a revolution that would take us to somewhere beyond just big government.