PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE – LABOR UNIONS

On this LABOR DAY, we celebrate the American worker who puts in a hard days work for a hard day’s pay. However, this is not the case when it comes to the public sector sans police, fireman and sanitation workers. This can be confirmed by many public workers who work hard day in and day out.

A vigorous effort is in effect to mobilize the millions of union workers, most to them working in the public sector. “The status quo — of police killing Black people, of armed white nationalists killing demonstrators, of millions sick and increasingly desperate — is clearly unjust, and it cannot continue,” says the statement from several branches of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, and affiliates of the National Education Association.

Unions representing millions of workers, from teachers to truck drivers, pledged to ramp up protests in the lead-up to the presidential election, with walkouts aimed at forcing local and federal lawmakers to pass police reform and address what they described as systemic racism.

We must remind the tax paying Americans who work in the private sector that union employees make 30% more that the average American for the same job. But that is not all, many of them are superfluous, excess baggage. One other salient point, Union workers are rarely fired, secondly, they have less stress when compared to the private sector worker. Many times there is no gauge to determine their production, therefore their actual value

But a recent report from the Cato Institute’s “Downsizing the Federal Government” project describes, by far, the largest pay and compensation gap yet between public and private sector workers. Adding benefits such as health care and retirement, federal employees have a higher advantage than private sector workers. Average federal compensation reached $127, 259 in 2016, while private sector averages topped out at $70,764 — or $56, 495 lower.

Federal employees earned 80 percent more in 2016 compared to private sector workers, according to Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato. Federal employees earn 42 percent more than state and local government workers,

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