Posted on 09/03/2006 4:56:53 PM PDT by takeemout
Unions' Approval at Lowest Point Since 1981, Poll Finds By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor September 01, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - A new Zogby poll has some unwelcome Labor Day news for union officials: Approval of unions is at its lowest point since 1981, and almost three-quarters of workers in the U.S. say they don't want to belong to a labor union.
"These results help explain the continued decline of union membership and do not bode well for the future of unions," said David Denholm, president of the conservative Public Service Research Foundation (PSRF), which studies labor unions and union influence on public policy.
"Working Americans realize that unionism isn't in their best interests," Denholm told Cybercast News Service.
In conducting the poll for the PSRF, Zogby International interviewed 803 employed persons selected to accurately represent the demographics of the general American population, Denholm said.
When asked, "In general, do you approve of labor unions?" only 55 percent replied affirmatively. When asked, "Would you personally like to be a member of a labor union?" 74 percent said "No."
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Unions have served their purpose. Worker rights have come a long way in the past 100 years, and unions were a big part of that. Now they are like newspapers and VCRs... dinosaurs.
Good.
What took so long !
I agree that most unions have served their purpose, but I do still feel that teacher's unions are important...teachers consist of one of our most vital assets, and are horribly underpaid for their work. Service workers unions, I really don't have enough facts on to make a call yet, but industrial unions are more or less irrelevant now.
Part of the outsourcing can be blamed on unions which have, over the years, artificially inflated the salaries of fat-ass, jerk-off, low IQ worker bees doing repetitive tasks that a retarded chimpanzee can be trained to do. Then when their production plant relocates to a third world country, these morons grumble between burps from cheap beer as to why they can't find a job.
OH! That guy is absolutely revolting. I absolutely cannot stand that picture of him smirking at that little girl he made cry. I just want to find him and punch him in the face...or having a photo of the same from election night 2004 when Bush was declared the winner perhaps would be an acceptable substitute.
Thankfully the President himself got wind of that photo and sent her a new sign...so for her she got a happy ending.
Finally some good news.
LOL!
They've destroyed the steel industry in America and are on their way to destroying the automobile industry (along with the help of management).
Teachers unions like the NEA (National Educators Association) are one of the biggest problems facing US education today. By their groupthink political correctness, they have stripped academic pursuit of excellence and replaced it with anti-Americanism, pro-gay agenda and revisionist history.
Oh please - teachers underpaid ? What a joke. With benefits, a teacher with 7 years experience in my school district is making upwards of $75k for a 10 month work year. You call that underpaid ?
Are you or anyone in your family a teacher? And what is the purpose of a teacher's union? Are teachers measured on performance? Can they be fired? Do they work 2,080 hours a years less 10 holidays and two weeks vacation?
that's one thing about unions...
you are no better or compensated any better than any of the other schlubs who can show up on time.
the hell with personal excellence or pay based on results.
Time to dump the Teachers Unions too!
when the NEA pushes for pay for performance they will serve a service. have known lots of ed teachers who graduated stated teaching and moved on.
add the $25K per pupil overhead costs to that....
What district is that?!? My mother was a teacher for 35 years and after all that she was making less that 50K. She should've moved, I guess.
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