Public Unions Brimming for a Fight

Public sector unions in the United Kingdom are casting ballots calling for authorization to strike.

The source of their outrage: Cameron's Conservative Government wants to institute much-needed pension reform for the public sector.

The British people are already suffering with a sluggish economy, although the nation's debt has not been downgraded, nor do the face the same crises gripping the Eurozone (one of the advantages of maintaining a separate, national currency).

Labor leader Ed Millibrand has attempted to warn public unions not to strike, calling planned massive walkouts "a mistake." He was summarily booed. Yet the predictable caustic reaction of a weary public, rightfully outraged at the enormously generous, nay rapacious benefits given to public workers upon retirement, will be more than enough to undo once and for all the political bullying of the public unions at the expense of hard-up taxpayers and their dwindling resources.

To solidify his resolve in the face of mounting pressure, Prime Minister Cameron needs to look no further than the example of her iron predecessor Margaret Thatcher, who took on the Labor opposition and their public unions supports and won, forcing the privatization of key services in the public sector and fighting back the inflation that was throttling the UK's economic prosperity. Since Cameron has the grudging agreement of the opposition party this time, then certainly the cause of limited government, free of cozy negotiations siphoning much-needed revenue to feather the lengthy retirement of public employees, will carry the day.