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Question: How have Unions have played an important role in government for the past five decades? As signaled in the subtitle and opening vignette of this chapter, unions function as protectors, partners, and punishers. Reactions to unions are far from uniform. Employees and managers both have "love-hate" relationships with unions. One fundamental paradox in LMRs is that the doctrine of hostility from the private sector was adapted with minor modifications by the public sector, thereby inhibiting the emergence of a competing model built on the doctrine of harmony. The legal structures underlying public LMRs ensure the continued dominance of the adversarial approach of traditional bargaining. Recent experiments, however, point the way to promising experiences with cooperative problem solving.