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And in all likelihood, you get tomorrow off. in 1954, about 35% of wage and salary employees in america were in unions. about 35%. by 2000, down to 13%. by 2010, less than 12%. here's one thing to understand about what's going on in wisconsin right now. the national figure right now for belonging to a union is 11.9%. that is the percentage of people who have full-time jobs in america in a union, that's it. but if you divide that, willing to look closely at that, divide into public and private sector, among those that work in private sector, only 7% are in unions. in the public sector, that num...

Rights code to interpret that as being illegal. that's what they're investigating right now. some of the people at the hearing were very concerned this could discriminate against people who have higher unemployment rates. i wanted to show you whites in this country have unemployment rate of 8%. african-americans, 15.7%. hispanics, 11.9%. there's testimony that people are disabled, for example, could also be discriminated against because they have higher unemployment rates and that could very well shut people who already have high unemployment rates out of the labor market. it's a big concern f...

It's borderline going to get violent it sounds like. >> teachers should not be using students as political props. >> it's bad for the kids. >> christie/scott walker way of doing it seems to be the winning way. >> i hope they stick to their ground and the unions lose in the end. >> well, there is no question that fox news is the media arm of the republican party. they invested in the republican governors association, so people like scott walker could get elected and bust the unions. today on fox, here we go, the big guy, karl rove explained the game plan. >> if you take a look at it in 2009, th...

Money. >> chanting kill the bill, recall walker. it's borderline going to get violent it sounds like. >> teachers should not be using students as political props. >> it's bad for the kids. >> christie/scott walker way of doing it seems to be the winning way. >> i hope they stick to their ground and the unions lose in the end. >> well, there is no question that fox news is the media arm of the republican party. they invested in the republican governors association, so people like scott walker could get elected and bust the unions. today on fox, here we go, the big guy, karl rove explained the g...

Reaction, now, from former white house senior advisor, karl rove. the unions, are they losing ground and desperate? >>guest: today i have a white piece of paper, if you look at 2009 the unionized workforce made 12.3 percent of all workers. in 2010 it dropped to 11.9 percent of the workforce they lost 612,000 union members in 2010. each of the 612,000 people had literally several hundred worth of union dues going into the mill coffers of their union to spend on politics. so, you keep having a couple hundred thousand, if 500,000 leave the labor union movement and you soon start have a crimp in t...