The only union in America that needs busting is the cops union. Low skilled work that doesn’t even rank in the top 20 most dangerous jobs. Bring on personal liability insurance and call it a day.
> Superintendents and Chief superintendents are represented by a separate staff association, the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales (PSA),[3] while the most senior officers are members of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA).
And the teacher's union... which will not allow the firing of bad teachers ("reassignments"), resulting in mis-justice to student in US who then fail to get necessary skills to succeed in this world.
I agree. I cannot think of a justification for public sector unions.
The typical pro-union argument for companies is that they protect workers against abuses by the company.
In the public sector, the union is supposed to protect workers from the citizens? I haven't ever heard of a good theoretical argument for them. Would be interested if someone knew of one.
Perhaps public entities should not enter into collective bargaining agreements with public sector unions, but freedom of association is guaranteed in the constitution, it's not going to be possible to ban unions in the US.
There is no bigger abuser of workers than we the citizens. We don't intend to, but we do generally expect extraordinary results for a pittance investment of resources with all sorts of strings attached.
Sure. Let's start with the police, and then we'll go after whichever next union is killing people across the country.
Edit: Your downvotes only make it more obvious that you don't really have a counterpoint to the police's homicidal tendencies nor their unions' participation in crafting legal protections for their actions.
Even CDC says it's safe to open schools - kids are not a major transmission vector.
How come private and Catholic schools are open and there isn't a massive spike in Covid cases?
Do you think it's fine for American kids to be even further behind in today's global skill race?
> Even CDC says it's safe to open schools - kids are not a major transmission vector.
The last time I heard of a local government opening schools with the "not a major transmission vector" argument was in Berlin, and they had no grasp on infection tracing. Yes, kids tend to be asymptomatic. But asymptomatic carriers are still infectious.
> How come private and Catholic schools are open and there isn't a massive spike in Covid cases?
Because that's just a small section of the population.
What's "the rest of the developed world"? France has 21k new covid cases in a day, and a population of 67 million versus a population of 328 million in the US, so the per capita rate is almost identical. Other west European countries at least are similar, usually slightly lower, but not dramatically lower e.g. by orders of magnitude.
The rest of the developed world isn't in a very different position with respect to covid.
The US is around 30 cases/100k/day and the EU is around 20 cases/100k/day
