It certainly looks like the public unions will win in the courtroom on prop B. State law concerning collective bargaining seems to trump the proposition city voters passed. Of course with that said if the public unions ignore the will of the voters they could face some wrath down the line. If you really piss off the voters it wouldn’t surprise me to see an attack on collective bargaining at the state level.
In my eyes the problem is defined benefit plans where you assume an above market risk free rate of return where the tax payer makes up the loss. Even in the rare event where the risk pays off the tax payer doesn’t get any benefit and instead the public sector employee gets an increase in benefits based on the better than average return.
If the unions members want to set up a defined benefit plan where they bare the risk that’s fine but right now they get to gamble on the risk curve and then force somebody else to make up the losses. Of course we all know what’s going to happen in the future. It will be easy to throw that small minority of the beneficiaries under the bus when the funds run out whether it’s legal or not.