Forbes - In Wisconsin are public workers overpaid or underpaid?

(Reuven Brenner, Repap Chair at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management):

"As an employee signing a contractual agreement, your best alternative determines your negotiating power.  If you are offered $100,000, a bonus, pension plan, health benefits, career path, severance payment and so forth, you can readily compare this to your alternatives and then decide…"