On Jan 23, 12:32*pm, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
Stevie Nichts wrote:

True only of non-government unions. Govenment unions, however, now
account for 51% of all union members -- and climbing.

Huh? Government unions climbing?

Yup. And it's 52%:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

What is newsworthy, however, is another figure reported
by the BLS: 52 percent of all union members work for the
federal or state and local governments, a sharp increase
from the 49 percent in 2008.[5] A majority of American
union members are now employed by the government;
three times more union members now work in the Post
Office than in the auto industry.[6]
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