Posted Apr 04, 2011 at 8:39 AM by Maurice Berger
By and large, Americans support unions in their present-day squabbles with Republican governors. A new Gallup poll reports that 48% of Americans "agree more with the
unions in state disputes over collective bargaining for public employees, while 39% agree more with the governors."
Tagged: 2011, Republican Party, unions, collective bargaining, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin
Posted Mar 04, 2011 at 9:43 AM by Maurice Berger
A just released Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reports that 62% of Americans strongly oppose efforts to strip unionized
government workers of their rights to collectively bargain; 33% support the idea.
Tagged: collective bargaining, 2011, unions
Posted Mar 01, 2011 at 8:49 AM by Maurice Berger
According to a New York Times/CBS News Poll, "As labor battles erupt in state capitals around the nation, a majority
of Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining
rights of public employee unions and are also against cutting the pay
or benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits . . . Americans oppose weakening the bargaining rights of public employee
unions by a margin of nearly two to one: 60 percent to 33 percent. While
a slim majority of Republicans favored taking away some bargaining
rights, they were outnumbered by large majorities of Democrats and
independents who said they opposed weakening them. Those surveyed said
they opposed, 56 percent to 37 percent, cutting the pay or benefits of
public employees to reduce deficits, breaking down along similar party
lines. A majority of respondents who have no union members living in
their households opposed both cuts in pay or benefits and taking away
the collective bargaining rights of public employees."
Tagged: 2011, US Workers, unions, collective bargaining