Adllective Bargaining Definitions

ollective bargaining gives unions a monopoly on the government's workforce:
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the government must employ workers on the terms the union negotiates, and may not hire
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competing workers,
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so nothing can get done without an agreement with government unions.
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Essentially union leaders, not elected representatives have the final say.
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This un-democratic arrangement is new:
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even diehard advocates of private labor unions like President Franklin Roosevelt and former
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AFL-CIO president George Meany strongly opposed giving unions such power over the
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government. Unlike in the private sector, government negotiators do not bargain with their own
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money - they're giving away taxpayer dollars.
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Government unions spend