Steve's barking at Unions for government workers (collective bargaining)

I've bee watching so called news and business networks recently,  hearing from the peanut gallery (the paid experts?) claiming that government workers shouldn't have unions and that  government workers shouldn't have collective bargaining. Now are they saying that if you become a government worker you lose your rights. Government workers don't have the right to ask for raises, nor ask for a decent health care. Government workers can't have representation nor rally, or voice an opinion. I guess these gas bags  believe that government workers should be grateful that the taxpayers let them work for them.
I'd have some respect for these overpaid stiffs if they didn't have agents or lawyers, I'd excuse their self -righteousness (maybe).
From my time in state government and a union activist I know a lot more then those pundits on the boob tube and those who write in the papers.
Nobody forced governors and legislators to give raises, if other states are like New York it's against the law to strike.
What can the workers do if they didn't get raises, vote against the politicians. There are more none government workers then there are government workers.
Give money to those politicians. They spend more money on their elections then the public unions could possibly give.
As I see it those who think that collective bargaining rights should be taken away public unions are just a bunch of sniveling cowards.  Kind of like most of the commentators on Fox.

New York State pensions can not be part of collective bargaining, I imagine that's the way it is in most states.

Why are states in a such bad shape when it comes to paying out pensions?
If they put money into their pension systems in good times as well as bad,there would be no shortfalls in their pension systems, New York doesn't and I believe California has no shortfall. If government didn't do what it's suppose to it blames the unions.

Did anyone but me notice that the demise of private pensions coincides with the demise of private sector unions.