collective bargaining agreements

Are collective bargaining agreements sacred? Most of the working people you and I know- the retail worker, the waitress, the truck driver- have little say about their compensation and benefits. Their employers state the terms, and the workers accept or decline. But to hear union leaders and liberal commentators use the term, we might think that collective bargaining agreements with public service empoyees are a sacrament, a concept to be venerated. They hold the term above our heads and seem to expect us to fall to our knees and gaze upward with a look of wonder on our faces. Just the other day, my wife and worried friends found me stumbling westward on Route 24 chanting: "CBA's! CBA's! God preserve Wisconsin's CBA's."
Well, not really. Actually, there's nothing to venerate here. Collective bargaining agreements with public employee unions feature very little bargaining in the public interest. The way the process works in a state such as Wisconsin, a Democrat or RINO Republican governor takes his or her place on the same side of the bargaining table as the AFSME reps, and proceeds to give state employees a compensation package about double what the private sector can provide. The unions, in turn, finance the governor's next campaign with our tax dollars and provide the foot soldiers on election day. CBA's are the prime culprit in the debt crisis forty of our fifty states are trying to resolve.
Oh, but wait a minute, liberals counsel. That bad Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (liberals, insert your venom here: Hitler, Mussolini, Limbaugh, Linguini, whatever) is perpetrating a grave injustice by "singling" out public employees.
Well, there truly is an injustice here. Think of the retail worker, the waitress, the truck driver in Wisconsin, barely supporting their families, whose taxes support the incestuous relationship between public employee unions and our elected officials. bill milan