When private companies offer poor compensation, workers are free to search for other jobs in different companies. On the other hand, if legislatures are strapped for cash and change state laws such that they can save money by damaging working conditions for public employees, there is no balance in the market. Public employees can't search for another government to work for (or at least not nearly as easily as private workers can look for another company), so there isn't any check on the power of the state government to change its mind about how they want to treat these employees (other than unions, of course).
yes, i trust the principals, administrators, teachers, and citizens.
No, you are essentially trusting elected officials that draw up budgets to treat public employees well. It is just a leap of faith. Like I described above, public employees don't obey all the same economic laws as private ones. Legislatures aren't subject to the forces of the market and can change their mind about how they treat their employees at their own whim (or the whim of their constituency).
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Date: 20/2/11 03:09 (UTC)When private companies offer poor compensation, workers are free to search for other jobs in different companies. On the other hand, if legislatures are strapped for cash and change state laws such that they can save money by damaging working conditions for public employees, there is no balance in the market. Public employees can't search for another government to work for (or at least not nearly as easily as private workers can look for another company), so there isn't any check on the power of the state government to change its mind about how they want to treat these employees (other than unions, of course).
yes, i trust the principals, administrators, teachers, and citizens.
No, you are essentially trusting elected officials that draw up budgets to treat public employees well. It is just a leap of faith. Like I described above, public employees don't obey all the same economic laws as private ones. Legislatures aren't subject to the forces of the market and can change their mind about how they treat their employees at their own whim (or the whim of their constituency).