I actually think the old pre-unification City of Anchorage pretty much gave away the farm to the trades and crafts, and the MOA just followed along.   The early Tri-Trades Council contracts with the State were patterned on the Joint-Crafts Council contracts and the State has been trying for 30 years to get some of its management rights back.   Will Aitcheson took the MOA to the cleaners on behalf of the APD, and all I heard from the Troopers and to some degree even the COs since the '90s was that they wanted what Anchorage had.   And I've never said the unions were unfair as unions, but they're more than unions; they're political parties with the power to buy governments.   You don't have to be a good negotiator to get a good deal from somebody you own.   Fortunately, the unions were never able to buy both a Governor and a Legislature - yet.