A Democrat who's pushing to outlaw transit strikes

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56. Public employee unions that strike are shitting in their own food dishes

Especially those unions that represent so called essential employees, firemen, police, garbage collectors, water and sewer plant operators.

The threat of a strike may result in some short term gains as terrified politicians give in to union demands but an actual strike will always result in a lack of public support for the strikers. And continued strike threats without action begin to sound hollow, so the unions can't resort to playing the strike card year after year without losing credibility.

In this county, a deputy sheriff makes about $55k per year not including overtime. The median household income in the county is somewhere around $42k annually. What kind of sympathy do you think the citizens here would have for public employees who went on strike?