&gt;I would love to see public sector unions eliminated in the city, if not nationwide. They just make things worse for everyone. Society needs an alternative to the union system in the public sector.<p>That&#x27;s because you aren&#x27;t familiar with what life looks like without unions. You know those Chinese factories, where they have to put up nets to prevent people from throwing themselves off buildings? Or maybe read up on the Triangle factory fire. Unions are like any other community organized around a cause that isn&#x27;t purely profit-driven; they become political in nature. You might be sitting pretty money-wise, but there&#x27;s a huge swath of people in America that aren&#x27;t. And because of the bullshit they have to put up with from their employers, unions look pretty good.
Final note: You probably know that Apple, Google, Facebook et al colluded to hold down salaries and reaped billions in savings from that. 
Though there is a class action suit being brought forth to recoup those losses, you really, really need to ask yourself this: If multi-billion dollar multinationals are doing <i>that</i> to &#x27;respectable&#x27; professions like engineers and developers, what do you think smaller caompanies are getting away with doing to their employees every single day?