Are They Supposed To Be Adults?

You don't expect a vote to go your way, so you pout, take your ball, and head home?

Budget Battle: Democrats Who Left State are Located - WTMJ: "MADISON - Democratic State Senators who protested the budget repair bill by leaving the state have been found. The lawmakers are in the Best Western Clock Tower Resort in Rockford Illinois. Law enforcement officials have been looking for at least one Democratic senator to bring in for a quorum required for a fiscal measure, but Democratic Senator Jon Erpenbach confirmed to Newsradio 620 WTMJ that he and all of his Democratic colleagues boarded a bus and left the state."

And how about these firefighters in Vegas. And the govt. employees of the City of San Jose.

It's not unions per se or collective bargaining that are the problem. The problem is that the unions have an unfair advantage for three reasons. First, "management" is forced by law in many cases to meet the demands of unions, they can not just ignore them as they should be free to do. Second, at times the unions use thuggery to get what they want and the govt. turns a blind eye to it. Third, when "management" is government as in the case of public employee unions, they are not playing with their own money and are more likely to accede to union demands. If unions were not given special privileges, I would fully support collective bargaining. People should be free to bargain collectively, and others should be free to ignore them.

Additional links:
Wis. Gov. Walker calls Democrat boycott a 'stunt' - Yahoo! News
Wisconsin School Staff and Salary Data
Markets, Not Unions, Gave us Leisure
A History of Labor Unions from Colonial Times to 2009
The Myth of Voluntary Unions
More on Teachers Unions and Controlling State Spending: Have We Reached a Tipping Point?
Unions want to overturn election result - JSOnline