Unions and collective bargaining are legal fabrications for purposes of wealth redistribution like so many other disastrous creations of the far-left, e.g., affirmative action (standardless) lending and affirmative action health insurance. As such they can be modified or, better still, eliminated the same way they were fabricated.

Forced collective bargaining with labor unions forces taxpayers to pay for an uncompetitive monopoly of services in the case of state employee unions that have 80%, 90% or even 100% market share of one or more sectors such as teaching.

Unions have tremendously unfair advantages over other collective service provider entities such as corporations and partnerships. These unfair advantages include what should be declared unconstitutional laws forcing businesses and governments into collective bargaining with uncompetitive monopolies. Other collective service provider entities such as corporations and partnerships do not have these advantages. No business or government is forced by state or federal law to negotiate with a corporation or partnership.

Many decades of the unfair advantages and outright collusion of Democrats in government and Democrats in unions during "negotiations" with Democrats' sacred political fundraising cash cow have already resulted in bankruptcies of some of America's largest companies (followed by taxpayer bailouts of tens of billions by Democrats aided by naive Republicans). Legally fabricated monopolies for labor unions and interference by their fellow Democrats in government effectively forced GM and Chrysler to hand over a massive share of company ownership on top of everything else, which is always the ultimate goal of unions. After increasing taxes to breaking points, government employee salaries and benefits are pushing governments to bankruptcies after decades of paying far too much for sub par to incompetent services that are nearly impossible to eliminate thanks to forced collective bargaining.

More than 22 million municipal, county, state and federal employees, many with much higher salaries and benefits than private employment and many with sub par competence and work ethic, have broken America's backbone, i.e., taxpayers.

Democrats attacked Microsoft as a monopoly with far less market share in a sector than a teachers union, but yet they praise the monopolies they fabricated by legislation creating and forcing recognition of unions and forcing collective bargaining with otherwise specially privileged unions.

People who collectively want to deliver a service should be limited to standard business entities such as corporations and partnerships, many of which are already service only (e.g. law firms). Unions should not be recognized or given special treatment over other collective service/labor business entities because, by design, it only retards competition, protects and overpays low quality and forcibly redistributes wealth to Democrats.

Competition must be forcibly reintroduced with laws requiring governments to diversify who they do business with and forcing governments to only do business by competitive bidding. Groups of competent, hardworking and honest teachers who respect taxpayers can form corporations and partnerships to compete against unions and shine light on how much taxpayers are being forced to overpay by being forced to deal only with a monopoly labor union through forced collective bargaining.