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Yeah,,,,I would say that was an UNEDUCATED comparison......your union put you in this predicament....and as I see it...the union
is equal to Mubarak.....I dont know what you are protesting about? oh I get it....you like Mubarak rule......

see,,,ya'll have it backward

union=Mubarak
public workers=Egyptian army/police
taxpayers=protesters

GET OFF MY BACK

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if anyone thinks that having national healthcare wont lead to such as this is sadly mistaken....

a populace can be driven by fear of

lack of child care/education
lack of healthcare availablity

those who control the guns control the masses
those who control the $$ control the masses

(I guess guns could be changed to any number of fears)

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Obama Provides Support to Unions in State Battles
Published February 19, 2011 | Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Organized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states.

President Barack Obama and his political machine are offering tactical support, eager to repair strained relations with some union leaders upset over his recent overtures to business.

The potent combination has helped fan the huge protests in Wisconsin against a measure that would strip collective bargaining rights from state workers. The alliance also is sending a warning to other states that are considering the same tactic.

"I think it's a clear message," said AFL-CIO political director Karen Ackerman. "If you take on middle-class people and try to solve the budget crises on their backs, there's a price to pay. Many thousands of people will be energized to fight back."

For Obama, stepping into a confrontation with a governor has its risks. The president is in a struggle of his own to tame spending, and siding with unions may cast him as a partisan even as he talks about setting a new tone in Washington........................>>>>...................>>>>................http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....tate-budget-battles/

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"I think it's a clear message," said AFL-CIO political director Karen Ackerman. "If you take on middle-class people and try to solve the budget crises on their backs, there's a price to pay. Many thousands of people will be energized to fight back."

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"I think Democrats here are upholding the right principle," said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. "Failing to give support to this principle would be a real problem as far as the Democratic constituency is concerned."

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Union Membership In America

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2008 and 2009 unions lost 770,200 members - a loss of 834,400 on private payrolls and offset by a gain of 64,200 in government employment.

As a result, the percent of the total workforce that belonged to unions fell from 12.4 in 2008 to 12.3 in 2009. On private payrolls it fell from 7.6 to 7.2 percent and in government employment it increased from 36.8 to 37.4 percent.

The source of the information is the BLS's Current Population Survey. In both instances the small increases were within the margin of error for the survey. Click here to see the whole BLS "Union Members Summary" report for 2009.

There's a good reason union membership is so much higher in government. Politicians have bartered the dues of public employees for union political support. Maybe public employees are getting tired of being exploited for the political gains of their union bosses and the politicians.

There was a time when things were different. In the mid 1950's more than 35 percent of all employees on private payrolls were union members. But then unions decided to focus more on political power than representing the interests of workers. Not surprisingly union membership has been on the decline ever since.

Unions like to blame their failure on opposition from management but the fact is that the working people of American have rejected the unions' class-warfare, us-against-them approach to employment.

Proof of this is available from several sources. According to a 1999 Gallup survey only 21 percent of employees who aren't union members would like to be in a union.

A Zogby Poll conducted in 2005 found that only 16 percent of employees said they would definitely vote for union representation compared to 38 percent who said they would definitely vote against. When you combine those who would definitely and probably vote for a union compared to those would would definitely or probably vote against a union the numbers were 36 percent for and 56 percent against with the rest undecided.

Another indication is the results of National Labor Relations Board Elections. Even though employment covered by the NLRB grew by more than 2.3 million jobs in 2006, the NLRB conducted only 1,755 union representation elections covering 87,172 employees. Unions won 60 percent of these elections but they don't petition the NLRB to conduct an election until they think they have a pretty good shot at winning.

In other words, even when they thought they had a good shot at it the unions only won 60 percent of the time and only tried to organize workers in less than 4 percent of the new jobs.

The NLRB also conducts decertification elections - elections where employees petition to get rid of a union - the unions lose about 65 percent of the time.

Updated September 2009