[mh-]

In 2009 the U.S. membership of public sector unions surpassed membership of private sector unions for the first time, at 7.9m and 7.4m respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-sector_trade_union#cite_...

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-troub...

[fnordfnordfnord]

From your second link "dramatic decline in overall union membership." which is what I meant to imply. Unions are fairly impotent today.

[rayiner]

Unions in general are impotent, but the public unions (teachers, police, etc) are among the only ones that still have a lot of leverage.