…Even the architect of the New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warned of the dangers of public sector unions when he wrote in 1937 that “[a]ll Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
FDR added: “The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people …”
In his 2023 book, Not Accountable, lawyer and former presidential adviser Philip K. Howard went even further than FDR, arguing that public sector unions are unconstitutional.
In an interview with CIE, Howard said that “public unions do nothing but argue for inefficiencies because they get more jobs” to compensate for the lost efficiencies and that the relationship between public sector unions and governing bodies is “nothing but collusion.”
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