Your tax dollars at work

[aphar]

If you do not have a Bachelor degree, taking a federal job will raise your total compensation by a third.
If you hold a Doctorate, that will lose you a fifth.
http://factcheck.org/2012/02/cbo-offers-its-two-cents-on-federal-pay/

This appears to prove that the trade union power (at least vis-a-vis the public) is too high.
In fact, it is not clear to me why public employees are entitled to unions at all: unions exist to screw back the employer on behalf of unskilled workers, so why do we, the taxpayers, let them screw us?

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[ymarkov.livejournal.com]

Sitting on both sides of the negotiating table, as it were.

I wonder how the UAW is doing at GM which it now co-owns?