The big question here is whether the unions will figure out that these kinds of anti-public tactics work or will continue to errode their image and influence . The old tactics of walk-outs and slow-downs among essential service workers are as dead as the Dodo bird and rightfully so . Public srevice union members who engage in activities which threaten the general welfare should be subject to summary discharge and immediate replacement ( remember the air traffic controllers ) .
Right now the United States is facing enough crises around the world and here at home which are either extraordinarily complicated or completely beyond out power to control . But the dilitorious actions of public service unions isn't one of them .