Union Debate

Should government employees be allow to unionize? In Wisconsin that question is on the chopping block. But ironically to the dismay of the republican majority the Democrats took the chopping block out of state. ( i wonder what would happen if they did that for healthcare reform?)

"Debate in the State Senate over Wisconsin’s controversial bill to cut collective bargaining rights for public workers ended, at least temporarily, on Thursday morning before it began. As the session was due to begin, Democrats failed to appear in the chamber, leaving the body without a quorum and leading the Republicans to send capitol officials in search of the Democrats." (New York Times)

Despite the stunt  by the Democrats in Wisconsin, the question beckons, should government employees be allow to unionize? The danger with having government employee unions is that they can lobby and effectively fight for the preservation of their jobs even if the regulation or the program that congress created no longer has a purpose. That can be very harmful especially when the government has to make drastic cuts to the budget. But with out unions the employees of the state would not have the collective bargaining abilities that they do now. So how else would they be able to voice their option or concern about regulation or issues relating to there employment? What ever your views his push from reform is a very telling sign of the hard times to come.

So once they find the Democrats what will happen to the governments unions and could this be the begin of national reform?