Even when guard labor is unionized, they tend to not to have any solidarity with other unions. See: cops.
The unions wanted Kenosha burned down (which is why CNN's unionized staff described the protests as "fiery but mostly peaceful" with a backdrop of burning buildings [1]) and no police or pesky militias protecting it, in order to demoralize the population and get more subservience from them.
[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-panned-for-on-air-graphic-...
These movements have no problem with their figureheads spending tens of thousands on their own private security attachments [1] or billions of dollars being spent to expand the number of tax enforcers [2] or to bolster policing to protect the political elite. [3]
[1] https://nypost.com/2021/07/31/aoc-has-spent-thousands-on-per...
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-seek-80-billion-to-bol...
[3] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-capitol-police-armed-wi...
At one end of the extreme it can mean that someone actually wants traditional police forces fully disbanded.
At the other end it can mean someone simply wants much more aggressive police reform with funding contingent on that reform.
Somewhere in the middle would be a person who wants some policing money diverted to specializing professional to respond to non-criminal calls, or to respond jointly with police to potentially dangerous calls that might be de-escalated with expert intervention.
People make a mistake when they use "defund" without specifying such details.
That's some really weird world view you got there.
* Pensions for public sector workers are bankrupting states, yet there is no political force capable of scaling them back. The kind of job security they gain through their collective bargaining agreement is also degrading the quality of the public service, in public education:
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/111/3/671/1839935?login...
And policing:
https://academic.oup.com/jleo/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jl...
And every other public sector. The inexorable rise of social spending stems from the growing power of public sector unions:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...
The work forces of media outlets have their own guilds, e.g.:
Which combined with left-wing labor laws, means they receive the benefit of barriers to competition from other workers who may want their jobs. Thus they have a financial conflict of interest in how they cover the news, to favor the left-wing political narratives over anything favorable to the concept of a free market and contract rights.
Barriers to competition is a separate topic and worthy of discussion, but on the issue of overall pay rates relative to private sector workers you are simply wrong.
[0] https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-public-sector-pay-gap....
The fact is an increasing proportion of top 10% income earners are unionized public sector workers, and the pay gap between public sector and private sector workers has indeed increased. Look at the gap between federal and private workers for example:
https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-bulletin/federal-pay-outpace...
You and I are not experiencing the same reality.
Also you started by mentioning unionized workers as a whole, not just public sector. Let's be consistent about who you're talking about, because a large portion of public sector jobs are white collar jobs requiring higher education, while large portions of typical union labor is much less well paid and has lower salary accordingly https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Union_Laborer/Hourl...
Yes, a significant fraction earn that much. According to salary.com, the median compensation of a public school teacher in New York is $100,000:
https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/public-school...
A significant fraction of those above the median would be receiving compensation above $110,000.
salary.com may be undercounting pensions too, given a USA Today FOIA request found that 3,800 NYS teachers earn over $100,000 a year for their pension:
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/alb...
>>Overall, 3,800 educators in New York got more than $100,000 a year in pensions in 2019, according to the data obtained from the state Teachers Retirement System through a Freedom of Information by the USA TODAY Network New York.
And that the average pension for NYS public teachers is $44,859:
>>the average pension for school officials was $44,859 last year for the 160,960 retirees in the system, the records showed.
This is significant given NYS public school teachers can retire at 55, and that pensions for NYS teachers have increased since many of the current retirees were employed.
Another report shows that a NYS teacher with 35 years of experience receives a pension of $87,945 on average:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/pensions-retired-n...
Now consider those pension payments, amortized over their career, are on top of all the other benefits, and an average base salary of $71,501 for public school teachers in NYS.
And this doesn't capture the value of their job security. It's incredibly hard to fire New York state public school teachers:
https://www.the74million.org/article/investigation-nyc-tried...
>>Also you started by mentioning unionized workers as a whole, not just public sector
Approximately half of unionized workers are in the public sector:
https://www.epi.org/publication/2019-union-membership-data/
So whatever fraction of unionized public sector workers are in the top 10% by compensation, we can surmise that the proportion for unionized workers as a whole is at least half that.