Reducing Strikes

            I am not anti-union but when a union conducts a strike which places the public in danger their leaders should be jailed and the members fined a meaningful amount. Those unions would include police, fire, medical, and education. Some others might fall into that category under certain conditions.

            I realize strikes of some sort have been used to gain a favorable contract for labor. Often the issues are safety but OSHA should be informed instead of holding a strike. Many strikes over pay are long enough that the strikers may take years to make up for lost pay.

            An alternate idea is for binding arbitration by a group or maybe a hundred people of which both sides would pick two with them picking the fifth as chair. The leaders of both sides would present their sides’ views without lawyers to object and hide the facts.