showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there onf public sector unions across the country. historian fred siegel of the manhattan institute says the new unions almost invariably worked to elect democrats. pay increases and pension increases and healthcare increases. meanwhile the union takes some of the money it gets from the city and invests in local elections. so it continues to elect people who will give the unions what it wants. and they also became a political force unto themselves. you can t act without their cooperation. that is because when elected officials didn t cooperate the public sector unions that fdr