Out of Control: Why Public Employee Unions Don't Serve the Public's Best Interests

By: Philip K. Howard

It’s time to rethink the role of public employee unions in democratic governance.  

Public union intransigence has contributed to two of the most socially destructive events in the COVID-19 era. Rebuilding the economy after the pandemic ends also will be more difficult if state and local governments have to abide by featherbedding and other artificial union mandates.   

Public employee unions are politically impregnable, but their corrosion of first principles of democratic governance may leave them open to constitutional attack.   

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