I’ll respectfully disagree. Not to discount issues with police unions protecting their own tho. Significant issues of the union closing ranks around officers which need to be reprimanded and sometimes removed from the force. But for teachers unions, specifically good teachers are criminally underpaid because teachers unions emphasize seniority over competency and the inability to fire/remove older teachers mailing it in. The negotiations of teachers unions emphasize years on the job over competency, causing great teachers to become unenthusiastic about their roles due to the inherently unfair pay structure. Obviously good teachers should be paid more, which is why private schools and charters schools perform better. It’s the unions negotiations which are the cause of poor performance and are in need of a change

Public sector unions on the whole are a bad idea. I entirely understand the desire to come together to collectively bargain for better pay/benefits/etc, but whether it be police unions, teachers unions, or anyone negotiating against the state, it’s a detriment to the public. The amount of corruption in public sector unions is obscene, and the opposing party (the state) isn’t as steadfast or rational in negotiations because it’s not “their” money, but rather the public’s money. Disband public sector unions as a whole