Death by union strangulation

The news from New York is not good. But then it rarely is. The major networks reported that New York city workers deliberately slowed down the clearing of snow from the streets of the "Big Apple" in order to protest budget cuts. The result (allegedly) was the death of an infant because the ambulance could not get to the hospital due to snow covered roads.

There has been an outcry from the union bosses that no employee would do, or be ordered to do, such at thing, to which I say balderdash. I was a member of a union spanning 30 plus years and I can stand four square on the knowledge that such can happen does happen and will happen in the future if the unions are allowed to continue unfettered and out of control.

I have no problem with collected bargaining for wages and benefits within corporations as long as reasonable limits are placed on such negotiations by scrupulous union officials and sensible corporate leaders. However, public service employees should not be unionized.

Teacher's unions are another problem. If our dear readers keep up with my writings they know that I greatly respect our teachers and the difficult job they have. My issue is not with them it is with the national and state unions that gridlock our education system and steal that precious commodity called knowledge from our children. With political correctness, global warming, recycling, touchy-feely indoctrination, and identity glorification, most supported by teacher's unions, little time is left for meaningful instructions and our children are being intellectually robbed.

Additionally, the regulations on unions should be a state issue and not a federal one, unless irrefutable evidence can be shown that the interstate commerce clause is solidly in play.

Unions had their place in America but I believe their time has passed.