membership as a proportion of the labor force has declined. but the one place it has gotten a foot hold, a stronger foot hold is in government and state workers. if these union rules go through, new negotiating rules go through, which in effect remove the union s ability to negotiate anything significant that actually kind of puts the negotiations on auto pilot, limits them to costs, inflation level increases, it in effect eliminates the need for a union. this encourages other legislatures republican controlled to do the exact same thing around the country, if state workers and state worker unions are so threatened, isn t this the most serious harm that could possibly come to the american labor movement at this point? absolutely. i agree.