BIG GOVERNMENT’S government-union firewall. “The AFL-CIO may have once represented the interests of steelworkers, auto workers and teamsters, but now the largest union in the AFL-CIO is AFSCME. In fact, 2009 was a historic year for Big Labor: for the first time in American history the majority of union members now work for the government, not the private sector.”

UPDATE: Mark Hemingway: Unions Are Desperate For a Tax-Paid Pension Bailout.