Chicago's Inspector General Joseph Ferguson uncovered a vivid example why government unions so desperately fight to retain collective bargaining--and why now broke, with some help from these unions--government leaders want to eliminate it. Periodically the media in Chicago erupt with still yet another amazing report of city workers loafing on the job. But they're wrong, they're not loafing, they're working. Hard. It is in their government employee union contract. Just another benefit of collective bargaining. In the latest scandal, coming at the voluntary end of Mayor Richard J. Daley's 20+ year reign, drivers the inspector's general office identified as doing nothing more than taking other workers to job sites and waiting while those workers do their assigned tasks, according to the report. That's all the drivers do--they drive other city workers or equipment to a work location--and then they return them. The drivers transport personnel and equipment to job sites and...(Read Full Post)