unionize• Fifty years ago, governments were not unionized.• In the privatesector, only 15 percent is unionized.• Osborne believes the only way to give physicians a say in how their patients are cared for is to unionize.• About 10 percent of the private sector and 37 percent in the public sector are unionized, according to the AFL-CIO.• Most of their work force is unionized, as is the shippingindustry, which is in Oakland and not San Francisco.• He said that unionized or civil-service workers have protection about what can go in their files.• In 1995, unionized Safeway employeesstruck for nine days before reaching a contractsettlement.