On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:44:01 -0800, wrote:

On Feb 3, 6:29Â*am, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
The title tells the story.

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB1000142405274870383700457501342406064946
4.html

The Wall Street Journal, 3 February 2010.

Joe Gwinn

Certainly true in Oregon. The recent vote on higher taxes showed the
measures lost in all counties, EXCEPT those with the largest number of
active and retired government employees, and their family and relatives.
We are screwed.

Note that the article states that of all the union help, there's more
public employees than private -- you have to double-check the US census
to see that the cited total number of union workers (15.4M) is but 5% of
the total US population (308M).

And the unionized workforce is declining overall, although whether the
public employees unions are gaining or losing isn't clear from the first
two paragraphs.

So it's not like the public employees unions can just win in a direct
vote, yet. It's more like the Portland area has yet again voted as one
while saying "Prineville? Isn't that in Utah?"

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