Sold down the river

In spite of my written protests to my state representatives, the governor and the legislature sold us (state employees) down the river to the unions. I find it so ironic being the son and grandson of union men that I am utterly opposed to unions. But the unions for state workers have no real collective bargaining power. It's all posturing. The governor draws up the budget and submits it to the legislature. Decisions about state workers' pay and benefits are made before the unions have a chance to negotiate anything. But now, actually beginning July 1, we will have union dues taken from our pay whether or not we join the union. So we are subjected to yet another effective salary decrease. I will guarantee right now that union dues will now go up as fast as the union can make it happen and the governor and democratic legislators will get record campaign contributions from the unions in the next election cycle, which is why they passed the legislation.