Public employees should not be allowed to strike in any circumstances. There should be no restrictions on the right of private sector employees to unionize and strike (and, in turn, no restrictions on the right of their employers to fire them). However, government employees (and my father is one, so I have nothing against them personally) get their pay from coercive taxation, and as such they must, as long as they are receiving tax money, continue to serve the public that pays them. If taxation is involuntary, so must working be for as long as one is receiving tax dollars.

Moreover, to strike against public safety is immoral in the extreme. What these police officers are saying with their actions is that they care more about that extra 7% pay increase than about the lives of those whom they agreed to protect from horrendous crimes. That is itself severely criminal.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)