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BOWLES against the recognition of public service unions has always been the assertion by the governor and other collective bargaining opponents that the state already has a highly efficient system for hearing and acting upon employee complaints, and that unions are therefore not needed.
The fabric of that argument, however, had a sizeable hole ripped in it last week.
A Joint Legislative Subcommittee studying grievance procedures for public employees fired off a letter to Highway and Transportation Commissioner John E. Harwood.
The letter told him, in effect, that if information obtained in a series of five public hearings around the state is to be believed, the
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