In all the countries, public-sector workers are better placed as regards unionization and collective bargaining than the rest of the workforce (ECLAC, 2011b). Thus, the people most in need of union membership as a mechanism for increasing their bargaining power and gaining access to protection and rights are actually the least likely to have been unionized. Nonetheless, the indicator presented is not a measure of current union membership, but illustrates the difficulty of unionizing less highly educated workers and those employed by private-sector firms. Mistrust of unions13 may not only discourage membership among workers but also create an adverse climate for the creation of unions within firms.