Thursday, March 10, 2011

Wisconsin and FDR

The current Wisconsin battle over public sector unions is a disappointing spectacle. The inflammatory rhetoric from the left has virtually no limits. They act like the evil Republicans are taking away some fundamental right from the "workers". But there is precious little discussion as to whether it makes any sense for government workers to even have collective bargaining.

So what did FDR have to say on this topic?

FDR: All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

FDR: Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees.

FRD: A strike of public employees ... is unthinkable and intolerable.

From a letter to the president of the Federation of Federal Employees

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