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Are "union worker" and "government employee" becoming interchangeable terms? New data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday show that for the first time in U.S. history the majority of union members are government workers. With massive job losses in the auto industry, construction, and other union-heavy areas, the country’s 7.9 million unionized government employees outnumbered the 7.4 million private-sector union workers in 2009. In 2008, 8.2 million private-sector workers were enrolled in unions.