Democracy’s hierarchy for managing government no longer exists.
The winner in the overtime pay sweepstakes in Los Angeles last year was a fire captain with $510,000 on top of his $169,000 salary. No one, however, multiplied their base salary as proficiently as a “trouble dispatcher” for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who received over $357,000, nearly seven times his salary of $55,000.
Government is “only as good as its workers.” That’s what governing is — public employees spending taxpayer money to provide defense, public safety, and regulatory and social services. Managing these public employees is the constitutional responsibility of elected executives — the president, governors, and mayors. Democracy is how voters decide which elected executives are best able to do this job. But thanks to public unions, those expressions of democracy are increasingly irrelevant.
Public union leaders argue that these protections are “just a matter of due process.” But the deck is so stacked against accountability that most supervisors don’t try. For example: Campaign financing is often sleazy, but public union financing is more insidious, like a corrupt quid pro quo: The mayor has a legal obligation to enter into a collective bargaining agreement with the unions. When the time comes to sit down and negotiate, Johnson won’t be sitting across the table negotiating for the public’s best interest. He’ll be sitting on the union side. It won’t be a real negotiation. It will be more like a payoff. As union leaders like to say, “We elect our own bosses.
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