For the first time in American history, a majority of union members are government workers rather than private-sector employees, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday.
In its annual report on union membership, the bureau undercut the longstanding notion that union members are overwhelmingly blue-collar factory workers. It found that membership fell so fast in the private sector in 2009 that the 7.9 million unionized public-sector workers easily outnumbered those in the private sector, where labor’s ranks shrank to 7.4 million, from 8.2 million in 2008.
“There has been steady growth among union members in the public sector, but I’m a little bit shocked to see that the lines have actually crossed,” said Randel K. Johnson, senior vice president for labor at the United States Chamber of Commerce.
According to the labor bureau, 7.2 percent of private-sector workers were union members last year, down from 7.6 percent the previous year. That, labor historians said, was the lowest percentage of private-sector workers in unions since 1900.
Among government workers, union membership grew to 37.4 percent last year, from 36.8 percent in 2008.
GOVERNMENT WORKERS ARE 7 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE IN A UNION - A UNION THAT LOBBIES FOR MORE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS - PROGRAMS THAT COME AT TAX-PAYER EXPENSE.
AND THESE UNIONS - THE SEIU AND AFSCME AND THE NEA - ARE IN INTEGRAL PART OF THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE. (WHOSE OTHER KEY PARTISAN COMPONENTS ARE THE TRIAL LAWYERS AND THE "EDUCATED CLASS"/SOCIALIST ELITES.
SEVERAL PREVIOUS POSTS ON THE TAX-GETTERS HERE.
NOBODY HAS SEEN OBAMA IN THE OVAL OFFICE MORE THAN ANDY STERN - THE RADICAL LEFT-WING SOCIALIST BOSS OF THE SEIU - AND A FOUNDER OF THE NEW PARTY AND THE WORKING FAMILIES PARTY.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MACHINE = TAX-GETTING UNIONS, TRIAL LAWYERS, PRO-ABORTIONISTS, APPEASERS, GRAMSCIANS, AND DUPES.
WUTTA COLLECTION!
UPDATE:
HALF A DAY LATER AND GATEWAY NOTICES THE STORY. YUP: WE SCOOP HIM ALL THE TIME TOO!
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