Imagine there’s no public employee unions

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Only 10% of workers are now union members, according to the new Labor Department report on union membership, released in late January. And private sector unions, which peaked at 35% in 1954, now include just 6% of all workers as members.

The Biden administration has bent over backward to save private sector unions from their final destruction. It has bailed out their busted pensions, allocated stimulus grants to projects with rules skewed toward union labor, and even tried to strangle the gig economy with new regulations designed to force contractors back into traditional employee roles — all so that they can be unionized more easily.

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