There is no correlation between states budget shortfalls and public employee's unions.

Here's proof that the wing-nuts are are mental midgets:

no correlation

Nevertheless, the results above certainly suggest that the animus toward public sector unions is misplaced: There seems to be no strong relationship between the existence or strength of public sector unions and budget shortfalls. Attempts to blame public employee unions – or public employees in general – for states’ fiscal woes are monumentally simplistic and, usually, have more to do with politics than parsimony.