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A new independent Gallup poll says a majority of Americans favor new legislation to make it easier for workers to form unions and bargain—vital public support in the fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
Created and conducted by Gallup, the poll of 1,024 adults across the country shows 53 percent of respondents favor “a new law that would make it easier for labor unions to organize workers.” The poll was reported this morning by Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, who says the results “give a boost” to efforts to pass this critical bill. The bill would give workers, not their bosses, the ability to choose how to form a union and protect workers from corporate coercion, harassment and illegal firing when they try to form unions.
According to the poll, a bill to make it easier to form unions draws the support of 70 percent of Democrats, 52 percent of Independents and 34 percent of Republicans. This strong support echoes the result of an AFL-CIO survey released earlier this year showing the public favors legislation protecting the freedom to form unions and bargain.
At the same time, many respondents aren’t closely following the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act. This means many aren’t aware that the freedom to form unions is limited by widespread corporate interference. In the AFL-CIO survey from earlier this year, only half of the respondents were aware that companies generally oppose their workers’ attempts to form a union and bargain.
Gallup reports the poll’s results back up positive public attitudes toward unions, which the polling firm consistently has found in its recent polling:
Previous Gallup polling has shown that Americans are fundamentally sympathetic to labor unions, and these underlying attitudes are no doubt reflected in their general support for legislation characterized as making it easier for workers to unionize.
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70% of Demcrats support the EFCA? 52% of Independents do too?
The Democratic majority in Congress had better take heed of those numbers.
If the EFCA fails to pass, we working class people will have been betrayed by the majority Party. So, too, will the majority of Americans. It’s put up or shut up time for Democrats. Who do they represent? Corporate America, or all of America?
Sometimes the most simple solution to the economy misses the very elite. President Obama today mentioned the fact Henry Ford paid his workers very well when they built the Model T. When asked why, his reply was so they can buy a car. That is the solution. If American workers can make enough money to buy the products from businesses, everyone is ahead. As it is now, foreign labor is hired so they send most of their money back overseas to be spent there or factories are outsourced so the workers in foreign countries certainly are not going to spend any money here. Oil for energy is purchased from foreign countries so there goes our economy.