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Sunday, February 20, 2011


Tired of hearing about the union dispute in Wisconsin? So am I. I can't figure out why there's a reason for any labor unions in the 21st century, but in times like these, it's important to ask, what would FDR think?
"The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service," Roosevelt wrote in 1937 to the National Federation of Federal Employees. Yes, public workers may demand fair treatment, wrote Roosevelt. But, he wrote, "I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place" in the public sector. "A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government."
That's gotta take some wind out of the argument when America's foremost leftist doesn't think government employees need unions.



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