NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 2, 2001

According to an article in National Review:

The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show that that only 13.5 percent of American workers belong to a union today – fewer than at any time since 1945.

The BLS also says that about four in 10 American workers are now employed by government.

If the trend continues, it says, there will soon be more unionized public-sector employees than private ones.

A survey by The Polling Company of members of unions and union households on Election Day last November, commissioned by Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative lobby, found that:

• Then-Vice President Al Gore beat Republican George W. Bush by 53 percent to 43 percent, whereas in 1996 then-President Clinton bested the Republican nominee, Bob Dole, by a far-greater margin, 62 percent to 31 percent.

• Members of union households were more likely in 2000 to be pro-life than the public generally.

• Half of all voters in union households said the one political incident Clinton was most likely to be remembered for in his eight years as president was his Monica Lewinsky scandal, compared with 40 percent of the public generally.

• Seventy-one percent have invested in stocks or mutual funds, either directly or through a 401(k) plan or a pension.

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