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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
OK, the city of New Haven, CT is broke. So they asked the police union to make some concessions, to which the union predictably said "no".
So the city did the only thing it could do, it laid off 16 officers in a foce of 400 cops.
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Unions seem to only care about how much they can screw "The Man." It doesn't matter if 100 people get fired so that the ones left don't have to make any sacrifices.
In my town, the school went to the teachers Union and told them "We've made cuts to all the programs and still won't have enough money to keep all the current teachers employed. We need you to pay an extra 5% towards health coverage. Otherwise, we're going to have to lay off about 10% of the teaching staff."
Union said "screw #^&#^&#^&#^&. The next week, 35 or so teachers in town were pink-slipped.
It's not about the greater good. It's about putting their boot on the neck of whomever they are negotiating with.