Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
The ESEA is the second largest union in the district with about 12,000 members. Every one of them VOTES. As a bloc. What politician can afford to oppose them? You could make the same argument about all the other public employee unions in this state.
We give teachers, firefighters, etc a legal, protected monopoly. They shouldn't be able to use their monopoly wages and key voting strength to extort even more blood out of the taxpayers.
A casino union (like Culinary) should use its own capital to buy a controlling stake in MGM, and then replace the CEO with someone who will give them 10% annual raises. AFAIK, that's perfectly legal. Why don't they?
Because non-union shareholders would dump the stock. The share price would fall to book value. The union would take a bath. Public unions leverage their political and financial strength to control the crooked politicians. Taxpayers' only recourse is to dump their homes.
That's why you can't give voting rights to *public* union members.
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