Another First For Obama: 1st Time Ever Majority Of Union members Work For Gov't, Not Private Businesses!

But, but, but SCOTUS' decision opens the flood gates for corporations being able to buy government, and no special interest has a place in this new Administration.  I know this to be true because Obama told me it was true.

Via Sweetness & Light:

NYT- 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…

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…

The overall unionization rate edged lower, to 12.3 percent last year from 12.4 percent in 2008.

According to the labor bureau, median weekly earnings for full-time unionized workers were $908 last year, compared with $710 for workers not represented by unions. The bureau attributed this difference not just to unionization but also to variations by occupation, industry and company size.

Notwithstanding the recession, government employment grew last year, inching up 16,000, to 22,516,000, according to the bureau.

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Comments

[Brett_McS]

Of course unions are there to protect the workers from their greedy, rapacious employer. Which in this case is ... the Government. Seems to be working.

Now we just need someone to protect the rest of us from the greedy, rapacious Government.

[Hoosier Momma]

I want my country back.....

[The REAL Bob]

I want my country back.....

I heard that.

[Jack]

Without BO's Healthcare bill we saved increasing their numbers even more. It's absurd how he is expanding the size of government.