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Originally Posted by Kngkyle
I'm a big supporter of private sector unions because they are a necessary counterweight to the profit motive of corporations. No such profit motive exists in the public sector. If anything, the interests are reversed and it's the union that has the profit motive and the elected officials are dependent on the votes of those same union members to win re-election. Public sector union members essentially get to vote for their boss, so they'll obviously choose whoever is promising to give them the biggest raise. This has been the story for the past many decades and part of why the City of Chicago is so broke right now. Lightfoot, to her credit, is trying to break this cycle even if it costs her dearly in the next election. She is the one displaying the real courage here.
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That's what I love about her. I believe she even said as much in her victory speech--something along hte lines of "I'm not here to be a career politician, so I'll do what I think is right even if it means I'm a one-term mayor."