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  • **FILE** Pro-union demonstrators crowd the Rotunda of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing to chant against right-to-work legislation on Dec. 5, 2012. (Associated Press/Detroit News)

    Union membership at lowest point since 1930s

    Business groups have long complained that the Obama administration is "labor-friendly," but union membership actually has declined over the last four years to its lowest point since the 1930s.

  • Most union workers now on government payrolls

    Unions were formed to bring representation to companies that otherwise were accountable to no one but their profit-making owners. But most union workers today work for government, not companies, even though there are five times as many private-sector employees overall, according to recently collected data.

  • Rick Berman, President and CEO, Berman and Company, takes time for a portrait in his office on Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 14, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)

    Berman turns his eye to battling big labor

    Rick Berman has a black baseball cap with the words "Dr. Evil" in his K Street office.

  • Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican (Associated Press)

    GOP seeks to loosen labor's grip

    In an effort to loosen labor's grip on workers, two GOP lawmakers want legislation that would require workers to re-affirm the existence of their unions with new votes every three years.

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