I think that’s true. But I fear the swing back is going to be cut short if unions stick to the current strategy of a unified front between public and private unions. My rough impression is that public opinion is swinging in favor of private unions and against public unions. I’m already hearing liberals get grumbly over rising taxes and declining services due to unsustainable public employee benefits, and that situation is going to get much worse before it gets better.

And at the federal level, the unions have declared war on half the country by joining the “resistance” against Trump’s policies: http://laborpress.org/federal-workers-plot-resistance-to-tru...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-with...