re: #32 Cineaste

Well if strikes are the only means of negotiation wouldn’t you see them much more often?

I never claimed they were the only means of negotiation. I didn’t even claim they were a means of negotiation. They are the penalty for a breakdown in negotiations.

I am supportive of laws that restrict public service union’s ability to strike since it may have a massive affect on the general welfare.

Me too. Restrict.

Unions can organize political campaigns to support and elect politicians who are supportive of their agendas, just like the rest of us.

What does that have to do with negotiating a contract with your employer? You’re seriously suggesting the way unions should negotiate a contract is through campaigning for people?

They cannot change the leadership of a company by vote (barring the ability to purchase a majority share of the company’s stock if it is publicly listed but then the union itself would be management and you have another ball of wax) so they can affect the company’s success in the market through labor actions.

Think about your analagoy for a second. Unions can’t change the leadership of a state by vote either— barring the ability of unions to make up a majority of the citizens in the state. You have the right analogy, but you have it absolutely fucking backwards. Union members get one vote apiece, just like the rest of us.