Sunday, February 27, 2011

Tom Juravich gets it wrong on public sector unions

He points out, correctly, that Gov Walker is  sap for business and gave away a bunch of goodies causing a deficit.  OK, granted, he guy is strategically stupid. He also points out that currently Wisconsis public workers , through their unions, have close to parity in wages.

Neither of these two issues touch upon the basic problem, public sector unions have received collective bargaining rights that take away from voter choicess, especially in education. Agreements between buyers of services and sellers of services needs to be done between those two groups, without some formal mandate from high government authority. This problem is espcially acute in the relationship between information technoogy and education. We have a situation where collective bagaining is forcing students into classrooms that have lost their utility, being replaced by information technlogy. Teachers, in the classroom, no longer earn the Risk Free Return, mainly because of technology. Educution is being broken up. dismemebered, and reassembled into smaller, specializes processes.

I presume this is about the Wisconsin equivalent of the Dills Act. If Gov Walker is a dunce, then recall the guy or vote him out of office.  But that is no reason to retain an outmoded version of the Dills Act.

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