I am sick of hearing how unions make America less competitive. The BLS Union Members Summary from January 21, 2011 (before the effects of the attacks on public sector unions have been fully realized) demonstrates that 11.9% of American workers belong to a union. In the private sector only 6.9% of the workforce is unionized. To blame union workers for America's economic problems is a canard. When 93.1% of private sector workers are not unionized, it is difficult to see how unions have anything to do with America's competitiveness. We should all be asking Republican politicians, corporate America, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when we can expect to see the jobs materialize now that we effectively have a non-union private sector workforce.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
As for public sector unions, they represent workers in government. As such, the unions ought not to have an impact on the private sector's competitiveness in the global market.
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