Do government union members care about the damage they cause?

Question

Look at what unions have done to Portugal:
3/2/13 http://www.france24.com/en/20130302-hundreds-thousands-march-against-austerity-portugal-0: Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon and other Portuguese cities Saturday to protest against the government's austerity measures aimed at rescuing the debt-hit eurozone nation.
The march included groups of teachers, healthcare workers and pensioners who have been especially hard hit by the budget cuts.
After cutting salaries and pension benefits in 2012, the government this year has declared a general tax increase and expects to impose further cuts
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Then look at American unions:
-http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/t… National Center for Education Statistics, Average salaries 2007-08: Government school teachers, $53,230; Private, $39,690

-3/31/10, postalemployeenetwork.com: “Postmaster Potter has made headway in reducing work hours and the costs of benefits and pensions, but the average postal employee still makes $83,000 in salary and benefits a year, placing postal workers among the highest-paid government employees.”

-8/13/10 USA Today: Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

8/15/12 USA Today/Gannet:
-More than 21,000 retired federal workers receive lifetime government pensions of $100,000 or more per year.
-Government pensions are vastly more generous than those in the private sector," says economist Veronique de Rugy of the market-oriented Mercatus Center: The average federal pension pays $32,824 annually. The average state and local government pension pays $24,373, Census data show. The average military pension is $22,492. ExxonMobilExxon Corporation, which has one of the best remaining private pensions, pays an average of $18,250 per retiree.
-Pension payments cost $70 billion last year, plus $13 billion for retiree health care. Taxpayers face a $2 trillion unfunded liability.
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1/20/11 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1349784401-+wi3Bo8ftlRwfSN3UT2ByQ: “Policymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.”

Answer 1

nope.

Answer 2

Green Peace are and continually were a entire 'waste of time' - made of humans who have 'protesters blood' in them similar to all protesters do and achive nothing in any respect. Work shy - watching for an extra variety of lifestyle and a motive to comply with no matter how pointless it's. Only a few people have even noticeable a whale (besides on tv) and have no curiosity in the campaign that inexperienced Peace comply with. There are far too many 'principal things' in this world to variety out first - and whales are 'method down the list' - and as you propose these individuals have little curiosity with humans or there problems unless in later lifestyles - after they all come again on land and reside the existence we all live having 'failed' in all of there so-called ideals. If it used to be'nt Greenpeace - they might be supporting some other '1/2 baked' recommendations (corporations) - and theres a lot of them about for them to select from. Talk to them and listen to what they ought to say - and also you see its the equal 'drivel' as these 'Ban the Bomb' crowd of the 60's who additionally achived nothing - we now have nonetheless received the 'Bombs' and the entire relaxation of Nuclear stuff they desired banned. And now all these people have moved on and settled down with 2.4 children - a personal loan - and bills to pay identical to the relaxation of us. To the Greenpeace crowd and different groups it's only an 'adventure' - a just right idea on the time - the achivement will and has been in the past..........'nil'.

Answer 3

Not one damn bit. If they did they would have never accepted the

US government take over of GM. And they would not have taken

stewardship of ownership away from people who actually invested

money.



GM is a Impeachable offense. Actually one of the only issues

that could garner support for action.

Answer 4

There would be no unions in the US if companies would just treat their workers fairly.

I do question the necessity of government unions, since hopefully the Govt would have rules in place anyway.

Answer 5

I agree with Smoking Joe.

Answer 6

no