Union to taxpayers: "Brother can you spare a dime?"

Here is a cartoon from today's Tampa Tribune.
I love doing cartoons about this topic, but I really wish I didn't have to. I'm not anti-union, but I do believe that when facing a huge budget deficit unions for public employees need to be reasonable. Public employee salaries come from the tax dollars of citizens who work for private companies increasingly don't have unions to protect their salaries and jobs.