With the percentage of union members in the private sector falling to 6.7%, almost half of all union members hold jobs in the public sector – where there is no competition! And, according to the NLRB and U.S. Census Bureau data, less than 10 percent of union employees nationwide voted for the union currently “representing” them. As an example, a recent report from Pennsylvania found that just 1 percent of Pennsylvania’s state employees — including police officers, firefighters and teachers — ever had a chance to vote for their union. In spite of the general workforce’s tendancy to avoid unions when given the choice, misguided politicians are still doing their best to force people into them, whether or not they have to ignore or break the law to do so, as this recent case in Seattle illustrates.
