As if things couldn’t get worse, the labor movement is even smaller than it was a year ago. Actually, the movement hasn’t been this small in six decades. In 2003, unions represented 12.9 percent of workers overall; in 2004, that percentage dropped to 12.5. The story is actually worse if you look just at the private sector which dropped from 8.2 percent in 2003 to 7.9 percent in 2004.

In this case, size does matter.