[quote=CA renter]The vast majority of people who apply for a position with a public school district are doing it specifically because there IS a union. You always have the option of working for lower pay and benefits in a non-union position…though I’m not quite sure why anyone would choose to do so.[/quote]
You are saying the same thing – that unions increase the cost of teachers’ salary because they can command higher prices based on their market power. In other words, it’s a monopoly. Yes, there are other options, but they are not viable.
That monopoly selling to the public entity hurts the taxpayers. Also, that monopoly uses its voting power to put people in office that are willing to keep the monopoly in place, again, at the taxpayers’ expense.
How anyone, regardless of their left/right tendencies, can support the legality, morality or public worth of any public employee unions is truly beyond me.
