More bad news for the Rats!
Posted on 09/07/2009 9:32:54 AM PDT by Zakeet
This Labor Day brings word of a new Gallup poll showing that American public support for labor unions has taken a sharp dive in the last year and is at its lowest point since Gallup began polling in 1936.
In response to the question, "Do you approve or disapprove of labor unions?" just 48 percent of respondents said they approve, while 45 percent said they disapprove. That's a steep fall from August 2008, when the numbers were 59 percent approve, 31 percent disapprove, and it's the first time approval of unions has ever fallen below 50 percent.
Before this year, American support for unions had remained remarkably stable for nearly four decades. In August 2001, in the first months of George W. Bush's presidency, Gallup's results for the same question were 60 percent approve, 32 percent disapprove. In August 1997, in Bill Clinton's second term, they were 60-31. In 1985, during Ronald Reagan's presidency, the figures were 58-27. In 1978, during Jimmy Carter's time in the White House, they were 59-31. And in 1972, during Richard Nixon's, they were 60-27.
The new poll also shows that many Americans believe the future is bleak for unions.
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Broken down by political party, Gallup found support for unions has fallen the most among critically-important independent voters. Last year, 63 percent of independents said they approved of unions. Now, just 44 percent say the same thing
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The numbers do not bode well for Democrats' desire to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, or card-check, which would eliminate the right to a secret ballot in union elections, or even a weaker version of the bill, which would provide for mandatory arbitration in unionization battles. This Labor Day, for organized labor, the news is very bad.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
More bad news for the Rats!
They believe this because for the most part it's true.
Although there are many hard working government workers those slugs who do nothing but complain for more get treated the same via union dictate.
Reagan had it right when he fired all the striking air controllers.
No other politician has had the huevos to nip the union control of out purse strings in the bud.
And we are now living with the consequences of our poor choices of those we elected.
Our kids and theirs will live with it for a long time ... what a shame.
IMO, it does seem more and more Californian's are waking up to this fact and realize this is what is destroying the state's finances.
Excellent salaries and benefits are one thing but the outrageous pensions are a financial killer. I heard a statistic recently that one third of the LA county school budget goes to just paying pensions.
Yeah - the real shame is that the pensions are profoundly top heavy. The grunt workers get the crumbs in retirement. The top dogs in the union pecking order have all the cream.
Absolutely disgusting. The union members have been had as well by their leaders.
Union thugs are allergic to sunlight.
I can assure you most of those who still support unions have never been forced to join one for their job. That said as a proud refugee from the NMU (National Maritime Union), on this Labor Day I would like to give them the credit they are due. Thanks to NMU and their brother unions the American merchant marine and the thousands of jobs it used to create is little more than an economic corpse.
In my lifetime, every time a union has touched an industry it has become an enconomic cancer that needs to be fought or it will kill the industry it claims to represent.
The only people that benefit from a union are the union leadership who line their pockets. The poor fools that pay dues are SOL.
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