Today, even doctors have begun to organize. Currently private sector membership is around 10 percent. As unions take advantage of the good economy and push to organize new workers, Aronowitz predicts that unions will continue to grow, at about one percent a year, as long as the boom lasts. Freeman, looking at the same employment boom, still maintains that his prediction isn't that far off. The good economy, he said, has created many nonunion jobs. .
Union organizers remain optimistic, though.
Unions will continue to play some role, if not an increased role, said Brian McLaughlin, president of the New York City Central Labor Council. We are still working so that everyone, rich or poor, has the same opportunity of running for president.