We all want higher wages for workers, but we wince when the Bernie Sanders Dems and the NatCons say the way to reach that goal is to expand union power.

That can’t work today because, as Rachel Greszler of Advancing American Freedom notes in her latest policy brief, only one in 16 private workers is in a union. And that percentage keeps drifting down.

The only area where unions are prevalent is in government. But government workers are already paid wages and benefits that are 20 to 30% higher than their private-sector counterparts. This is the one group of protected-class workers we don’t want to be paid more.