Smart unions are supposed to take business conditions into account. If the business is losing money, the union would recognize that and pull back a bit, because it needs to be a symbiotic relationship to last, not a parasitic one. However, businesses are rarely willing to share honest financial numbers with their unions.
That’s not at all what a union is. Why else would federal workers need their own unions? The point of a union is collective bargaining power for labor. Federal workers have little to no bargaining power when budgets are set by Congress. Especially when they can’t strike.
> Note that government labor regulations are effectively just really one big union (called the government).
No, there's no relation.
Playing devil's advocate:
- Having government functionally like one big union make individual union obsolete.
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Where will you be without them, you mean. The current trajectory of the US government is the opposite of strengthening the rights of labour.