Unions Step Up to the Plate, Agree to Contribute to "Grand Bargain"

**corktownyuppie** · May-20-14, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch

Bravo to the Michigan Trades Council. The point of unions is to be united. Supporting your brothers and sisters should be a core principle.

A swift kick to Ed McNeil and AFSCME who shows just how useless municipal unions are to society Blaming CAY? I'm speechless.

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Proof of why municipal unions should be eliminated.

There's actually some serious tension being reported between AFSCME local, which believes that they need to drive a harder bargain, and AFSCME national, which believes this is either a good deal -- or the best deal they're gonna see.

Other unions have already found out the hard way that holding out for a better deal may actually worsen your position. Not sure where Ed McNeil is coming from on this.

**noggin** · May-20-14, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by corktownyuppie

There's actually some serious tension being reported between AFSCME local, which believes that they need to drive a harder bargain, and AFSCME national, which believes this is either a good deal -- or the best deal they're gonna see.

Other unions have already found out the hard way that holding out for a better deal may actually worsen your position. Not sure where Ed McNeil is coming from on this.

The muni unions have been trained in the past is to make demands and then elect politicians to fulfill them. Now that the landscape has changed they are a little bit clueless.