ABSTRACT
Why does the union in the public service want collective bargaining? The union wants collective bargaining because it is concerned with the general welfare of the public employee, raising wage levels in public employment, improving working conditions, and providing job security, and because it is equally concerned with improving the public service. The one is dependent on the other. The union wants to represent and bargain for all employees in the unit involved in order to secure a continuous relationship and joint consideration of problems arising out of the bargaining contract. It wants more than meetings prior to the adoption of the annual budget; it wants consideration of day-to-day problems. The union wants collective bargaining to help do away with the spoils system, to correct the lag between the economic position of the public employee and that of the industrial worker.
