The End of Our Legal System: Judges Joining Unions?
Unions are meant for one thing and one thing only: to “get” for its members. They have one purpose and that is to take as much from an employer as they can take, to get as much money and benefits as they can get away with.
Unions are not interested in assuring quality workmanship, they are not interested in offering quality to customers, and they most certainly aren’t interested in efficiency and modernization. Unions have but one purpose, to extort as many goodies as possible from an employer regardless of what it does to a business or a profession. Unfortunately, in the State of New York, judges are looking to “get” from the Empire State’s taxpayers regardless of what it might do to our legal system.
The New York Post reports that New York judges are toying with the idea of throwing in with the New York teachers union, New York State United Teachers, so that they can engage in collective bargaining.
One activist judge in particular is behind this effort according to the Post. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Arthur Schack is a former teacher, member of the United Federation of Teachers has been agitating for a pay raise for quite some time.
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53% of U.S. Local and Federal Employees are unionized. Many are paid twice the amount of taxpayers working in the private sector. The U.S. is fast moving in the direction that caused the former USSR to collapse; imploding numbers of government bureaucrats. Ordinary Soviet Union Citizens not working for government barely had enough money to live, to buy food, while Soviet government workers were paid well and had lots of perks. In the U.S. despite the horrific recession, most government employees have not been adversely affected economically compared to U.S. Citizens working in the private sector. In fact government employees have received or attempted to receive pay increases; even raising property taxes to ensure they can maintain their government jobs and perks. Meanwhile millions of U.S. Citizens appear destined for soup-lines. Considering the high salaries paid government employees, in many cases two government employees could be paid for the salary paid one. Candidates running for government office should include in their campaign issues cutting the salaries of certain government bureaucrats to help cut federal deficits.