Thursday, October 7, 2010

LA teachers threaten lawsuit

Some LA teachers may lose their jobs and the union isn't happy about it, according to the LAT. The union plans to sue the school district.

Great. Sue or strike. The union gets its way. The students and their parents and the taxpayers be damned. Why were public employees ever allowed to unionize? Schools were better before unions. Perhaps governments were as well. It's certain that schools and governments were less costly before unionization.

Philosophically, it doesn't make sense to pay public employees well because that means you'll get more of them. They ought to be paid just enough to attract the minimum number needed. There is no magic formula for determining the minimum number or the right pay level but we know that what we have now is too much pay and too many public employees. It's time to cut both down a little.


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