Meanwhile, even the Boston Globe, a New York Times-owned newspaper that generally favors privileges for government unions, admits in an editorial that they can go too far. The paper explains a plan to shut down Boston's main public library on Sundays:
Even though the Copley library is busiest on weekends, labor contracts call for librarians and library aides who work on Sunday to receive overtime pay. Clearly, some library staffers should be working on straight-time Sunday-to-Thursday schedules. More weekend hours would be helpful at neighborhood branches, too, but this can happen only if city negotiators persuade librarian unions to tailor branch hours to the needs of users.
The Dispatch quotes a Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Dennis Murray of Sandusky, who describes the just-passed bill as "union busting masquerading as cost control." In the public sector, union busting is cost control. In the topsy-turvy world of contemporary liberalism, it's "progressive" to deliver less service to taxpayers at greater cost. Sooner or later, liberalism will collapse unless conservatives save it from the predation of the unions.
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