Thousands Gather to Protest Bill in Ohio - NYTimes.com

Thousands Gather to Protest Bill in Ohio - NYTimes.com: "Unionized workers represented just 6.9 percent of all workers in the private sector in 2010, according to Richard Freeman, an economist at Harvard, down from about 36 percent in 1955. The number of unionized workers in the Public sector has held steady at about 35 percent since the late ’70s, he said.

“Seven percent in the United States makes them a very rare breed,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a high probability that this will be an explosive event where the average American says, ‘Wait, this is what’s left of the middle class — what are you doing?’ ”"