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Holding Public Employee Unions ‘Accountable’

As longtime New York public union head Victor Gotbaum explained, ‘We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss.’

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Labor leader George Meany, left, with President Nixon in 1969. Via Wikimedia Commons
MICHAEL BARONE
MICHAEL BARONE

How did it come to pass that public employee unions, which scarcely existed 60 years ago, have come to run public schools and myriad state and local government agencies?

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MICHAEL BARONE
MICHAEL BARONE

Mr. Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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