A devastating consultant's report was released Wednesday and is now headed for consideration under DWSD's new regional management structure.
The study recommends that an astounding four of every five jobs at DWSD be outsourced or just go away, saving hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
For unions and the whole idea of collective bargaining, the report makes any sort of future very hard to negotiate, writes Stephen Henderson in the Free Press.
"It reinforces the notion that unions protect work and jobs at the expense of customers and service. It suggests that collective bargaining turns government into a provider of jobs instead of public services."
Henderson writes he is a union supporter whose family labor roots in Detroit run deep.
But, he asks, "who can defend the kind of featherbedding that's described in the audit?
"Ultimately, that's not even in the interests of the employees, many of whom are stuck in superfluous, overly specialized jobs and, as a result, are probably not employable elsewhere."
