As  Douglas County  prepares to have a  hearing  on  Feb. 18  to discuss making their  collective bargaining process more transparent ,  union leaders opposing  transparency   will be  descending on   the rural Eastern Washington town of Waterville to  make a show of force.    What  tired arguments will the  unions  bring to oppose this commonsense policy? Some of their  favorite arguments  against transparency  are :   “ The Freedom Foundation supports it , so it must be bad ”   “Nobody negotiates in public”   “It will hamper the process” “It’s a recipe for gridlock”    In the   22 states  that  allow  more  public  transparency with  negotiations, including Idaho  and  Oregon , they are not having the imagined problems unions in WA are afraid of.   We aren’t having any of th...