Burning Money: How Public Employee Unions Made Government Unmanageable

What happens when managers no longer have the authority to manage? When managers can't terminate an employee who is inept? When they can't assign the best employees to a hard task? Or when they can't consolidate near-empty facilities? Any business would soon fail.

Welcome to the sinkhole of American public administration. Government supervisors and school principals in most states and cities are more like compliance officers, lacking rudimentary management powers, because public union colle...