Collective Bargaining

I just read an article in the AARP magazine about a recent audit of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. A quasi-government authority that runs the New Jersey Turnpike. According to the article, the audit done by the New Jersey State Treasurer found millions and millions of dollars of wasted salaries and unearned bonuses. And how did the New Jersey Turnpike Authority management deflect the blame for its wastefulness? The management blamed the waste on its collective bargaining agreements. As if the NJTPKE management had not agreed to the wasteful agreements itself.
More and more it seems that when municipal or quasi-government agencies bargain with their unions, the unions get whatever they want, because the management and the unions are bargaining with themselves

Is it just me, or are all the articles written every day just seem to get me, more and more angry.

Municipal Unions

Municipal unions serve no function other than to protect their members & union officials from economic reality. When municipal unions collectively bargain with our elected or appointed state county, or local officials they are bargaining with themselves. Municipal unions have fostered the idea that municipal workers (policeman, fireman, teachers, etc. ) work for the state, they don't, municipal workers work for the taxpayers, and the taxpayers have no-one to represent them in any collective bargaining between any current municipal unions. As some one once said " if you want to control someone first appear to serve them."