The Economist Manifesto against public service unions‏

The right wing Economist magazine reviews the resistance of public sector unions to spending cuts in Britain and elsewhere, in terms worthy of the Tax Dodger’s Alliance: http://www.economist.com/node/17851305?story_id=17851305&fsrc=scn/tw/te/rss/pe

Public sector workers are “tax eaters” and their unions have been “having a banquet at everybody else’s expense"... "although many individual state workers do magnificent jobs, their unions have blocked reform at every turn”.

The article goes on to target the pension rights of public service workers, calls for restrictions on the right to strike and the requirement to opt in to (rather than opt out of) trade union political fund contributions.

It is a timely reminder of the bottom line of the neo con’s driving the public policy agenda of the Con Dem government in the UK. At least two of these target areas are the subject of Con Dem initiated commissions due to report in the Spring (public sector pensions and party funding).

It’s a far cry from the Conservative Party’s own candy floss manifesto for public service workers launched prior to the general election in April:
http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2010/04/An_invitation_to_public_sector_workers.aspx