The workers must tighten their belts a little bit to pay for the tax cuts to billionaires. Yet more austerity for the 99% so the 1% can get even richer.

Just askin.

Perhaps asking that when in negotiations would be more appropriate time to question. Each Union contact is different and on different schedules. They all don't negotiate at the same time. They also don't have the same Union. For example the teachers all belong to one Union whereas state employees belong to another. The police belong to yet another. Understand your confusion though. Takes a lot of time to study and understand the various unions and how they operate. I applaud you for asking the question because that is how you will learn especially on DU. Good luck on your quest for knowledge. It's always a great thing.

I hope it's the latter because you aren't very good at the former.

But you do seem quite adept at reading volumes into a 16 word post.

At any rate I'm glad you informed me about the ins and outs of public employee bargaining units. It might interest you to know that I was probably negotiating union contracts when you were still shitting yellow. I have been involved in this process from both sides. I was a union rep as early as 1966 shortly after I was discharged from the army and I was on the management side of negotiations from 1974 until I retired in 2001.

Imagine that in all those years I never knew that "teachers belong to one Union whereas state employees blond to another". I could have been so much more effective if I had only been so fortunate as to have your expert advice back then.

Anyway, good luck with your sarcasm sonny. Maybe when your voice changes you can call me and share some more of your wisdom with me.

You just didn't seem very knowledgable about unions when you asked a question outside the topic. Anyway glad you are up on unions with the rest of us. The more of us who understand the processes the better. Welcome!

Didn't she have a brain tumor?