Government Unions Undermine Upward Mobility

A common claim made by government employee unions and their supporters is that they stand up for the little guy. Cue Aaron Copeland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” But the reality is more complex. Public sector unions are increasingly becoming bastions of white-collar, skilled workers, counter to the mythology of a blue-collar everyman. Government unions are major campaign donors. And elected officials who rely on unions to remain in office in exchange for expanding benefit packages that are driving cities like Detroit and Stockton, California, and states like Illinois and New Jersey to the brink of fiscal insolvency.

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