Comment: muck, the unions could have went on strike. All the teachers cops firemen etc. But why should they right? They still had their golden parachutes. And striking can be messy and just the newbies will be affected. So silence don't rock the boat we still have our crazy outrages good bennies, lets not mess this up. It will just be the newbies that take the hit. muck if thousands and thousands of cops teachers etc had even threatened to refuse to go to work on behalf of future fellow members and union solidarity, the state would definitely have reconsidered. But the union members had what they wanted and opted not to take the moral high ground and stand in solidarity for their union and future members. So greed and lack of union leadership and membership solidarity broke the public sector unions and exposed the members for lack of caring or concern for the wellbeing of fellow employees.