When every single Republican is anti-union, why are so many DUers anti-union too?

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64. Bullshit

This has been debunked time and again. Public worker pay is LESS than that of private sector workers, except for those who have less than a college degree. As the education level rises, the gap widens.

All of those studies that purport to say otherwise are comparing apples to oranges. They usually include workers in the private sector who have no equivalent in the public sector (part-time fast food workers, for example). The newspaper articles screaming this fail to control for many factors.

Now the pension thing seems like it is true, but only because the private sector has been eliminating pensions right and left. It's been a bloodbath and people SHOULD be upset by that. But not to the point where they are tearing others down.

Here's an article that lays it out better than I can:

http://www.epi.org/publication/debunking_the_myth_of_the_overcompensated_public_employee/

The data analyses in this paper, however, indicate that public employees, both state and local government, are not overpaid. Comparisons controlling for education, experience, hours of work, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, and disability, reveal no significant overpayment but a slight undercompensation of public employees when compared with private employee compensation costs on a per hour basis. On average, full-time state and local employees are undercompensated by 3.7%, in comparison with otherwise similar private-sector workers. The public employee compensation penalty is smaller for local government employees (1.8%) than for state government workers (7.6%).