The Fourth Rail: Public Sector Unions

This is something people need to be educated about: public sector employment, especially when it involves unions, can develop into a self-reinforcing cycle of ever larger government workforces and ever lower efficiency. But, these public sector unions are powerful special interests. And, like all special interests, they benefit from a political dynamic whereby their advocacy produces major direct benefits for themselves and inflicts a diffusem mostly concealed burden on the rest of the country. Consequently, they are always more motivated and organized than their opponents--and both their numbers and their wages keep growing.