Should Public Sector Unions be Gotten Rid of?

          Following up from last week’s post about labor unions and how they are decreasing, I want to focus on some of the negative effects that public sector labor unions have on the U.S. Economy. In an article published in the Washington Post by Amy Gardner, she tries to take on multiple perspectives of what people think when they hear public sector labor unions. She talks about the retirement age of ER nurses and firefighters and their retirement packages in order to personify her opinion that private sector workers believe public sector workers retire early and make private sector workers support them with the taxes they pay.

          She later goes on to talk about how Ohio’s Governor John Kasich believes that the taxpayers are underrepresented and that in the long run in order to keep the government running they must reduce money spent to public sector salaries and retirement packages. She has several counter arguments of public sector workers saying that they are not rich and that their work benefits are based off of the longevity. In order to keep their long term work benefits, the public sector workers rely on their unions and their collective bargaining. However, Kasich supports the Right to Work legislation, which will limit the union’s ability to collective bargain for public sector wages. What do you think about this? Do you agree that retirement pensions of public sector workers should be cut in order to keep local governments running?
 http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-04-18/politics/35231264_1_union-workers-embrees-public-workers