From the London Daily Mail:
Gov. Walker: White House interested in Wisconsin union law
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that he spoke with Vice President Mike Pence about how the White House can implement on a federal level parts of the Republican governor's contentious policy that all-but eliminated collective bargaining for public sector unions in the state.
President Donald Trump has talked about wanting to weaken collective bargaining protections for federal employees, most of whom can't currently bargain over wages or benefits, to make it easier to hire and fire government workers and base pay on merit rather than tenure. Those changes would require an act of Congress.
Walker severely restricted union power in Wisconsin and is now talking with the Trump administration about "how they may take bits and pieces of what we did" with the union law and civil service reform and "apply it at the national level."
Unions very much had their place in America but they have not adapted to the times and wind up being very expensive for all parties. Public Sector unions especially - teachers, government officials, etc... It is next to impossible to fire bad or delinquent workers, benefits (specifically retirement pensions) outstrip the abilities of the organization to fund - case in point California. It will be an uphill battle but the net outcome will be very good for everyone except the incompetent union employee.
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