Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions

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Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions - USATODAY.com

Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY Updated
MADISON, Wis. — Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law.

 

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Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

Hummm, square that with this;

As the nation’s eyes fix upon the fascinating battle in Wisconsin, pitting the Republican Governor Scott Walker against public employee union, a poll from the non-partisan Clarus Research Group suggests that most Americans would probably be on the governor’s side on this issue.

Clarus' nationwide study found that 64 percent of American people think state workers should not be able to join labor unions.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/114185/20110218/unions.htm

 

[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

I have never heard of that outfit.

 

[Amazed]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

You go ahead and run with this....we want nothing to do with these Unions...and Bammy and you can ride off into the sunset believing this..it's where you are headed.

I have never heard of that outfit.

 

[X Factor]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

I have never heard of that outfit.

That's because it's non partisan.

 

[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

we want nothing to do with these Unions

Apparently you are in a minority.

 

[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

That's because it's non partisan.

So is the group cited in the OP. I would imagine that nearly everyone is familiar with The Gallup Poll.

 

[Amazed]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

Sure thing...but with all due respect...November was about this stuff

How did that turn out for you?

Apparently you are in a minority.

 

[X Factor]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

So is the group cited in the OP. I would imagine that nearly everyone is familiar with The Gallup Poll.

Sure am,

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup finds organized labor taking a significant image hit in the past year. While 66% of Americans continue to believe unions are beneficial to their own members, a slight majority now say unions hurt the nation's economy. More broadly, fewer than half of Americans -- 48%, an all-time low -- approve of labor unions, down from 59% a year ago.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/122744/Labor-Unions-Sharp-Slide-Public-Support.aspx



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[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

Sure thing...but with all due respect...November was about this stuff

How did that turn out for you?

This is this. This isn't something else. This is this. And what this is about is the Gallup poll showing Americans in big numbers DO NOT WANT a law like the reactionary one being proposed in Wisconsin for their own state.

btw - the Clarus research group has exactly two employees and revenues of under a million dollars a year. that hardly places them in the same universe - let alone the same league as Gallup.

Clarus Research Group - Washington, District Of Columbia (DC) | Company Profile

 

[Amazed]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

Look, I am content with where all of this is going...we've had enough.

This is a loser for you/the Left...watch and see.

This is this. This isn't something else. This is this.

btw - the Clarus research group has exactly two employees and revenues of under a million dollars a year. that hardly places them in the same universe - let alone the same league as Gallup.

Clarus Research Group - Washington, District Of Columbia (DC) | Company Profile

 

[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

Look, I am content with where all of this is going...we've had enough.

This is a loser for you/the Left...watch and see.

the right always seems to have "had enough" when the story turns against their belief system. Until that time its all high moral platitudes about the will of the people. Then we find out that the will of the people is against what you want.

 

[Badmutha]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

....Poll of 1,000 Government Union Workers Monday. Margin of error: +/-4 percentage points
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[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

....Poll of 1,000 Government Union Workers Monday. Margin of error: +/-4 percentage points


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what does this post mean?

Here is how Gallup took its survey

Survey Methods
Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 21, 2011, with a random sample of 1,000 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.

For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.

Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones (for respondents with a landline telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell phone-only). Each sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone-only respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.

Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, education, region, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2010 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in continental U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.

In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/146276/Scaling-Back-State-Programs-Least-Three-Fiscal-Evils.aspx

 

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Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

what does this post mean?

Did you overlook this conveniently?

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup finds organized labor taking a significant image hit in the past year. While 66% of Americans continue to believe unions are beneficial to their own members, a slight majority now say unions hurt the nation's economy. More broadly, fewer than half of Americans -- 48%, an all-time low -- approve of labor unions, down from 59% a year ago.

 

[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

Did you overlook this conveniently?

I do NOT see that in this study? Where is it exactly? Your opening line with a Princeton NJ dateline does not even match up with the opening line of the Gallup survey on its own site.

 

[American]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

This is this. This isn't something else. This is this. And what this is about is the Gallup poll showing Americans in big numbers DO NOT WANT a law like the reactionary one being proposed in Wisconsin for their own state.

btw - the Clarus research group has exactly two employees and revenues of under a million dollars a year. that hardly places them in the same universe - let alone the same league as Gallup.

Clarus Research Group - Washington, District Of Columbia (DC) | Company Profile

A poll like this doesn't even pass the common sense test. Pfft.

 

[haymarket]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

A poll like this doesn't even pass the common sense test. Pfft.

I completely agree that a poll from a virtually unknown outfit like Clarus does not pass the common smell test. Some outfit with two employees and a tiny income certainly pales in the seventy year credibility of Gallup - the gold standard in public polling.

For once we agree.

 

[Amazed]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

No, America said it's had enough in November.

This Union thing is no more than an extension of the Obama problem.

It's ok....2012 will bare me out.

the right always seems to have "had enough" when the story turns against their belief system. Until that time its all high moral platitudes about the will of the people. Then we find out that the will of the people is against what you want.

 

[MaggieD]

Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions - USATODAY.com

Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY Updated
MADISON, Wis. — Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law.

I do not believe it for one moment.

Only 11% of American workers are unionized. I don't know who they asked, but they weren't standing in front Grand Central Station.

 

[haymarket]

I do not believe it for one moment.

Only 11% of American workers are unionized. I don't know who they asked, but they weren't standing in front Grand Central Station.

Of course you don't. As is your right. You can adopt any belief system you want and exclude any facts or information which endangers those willful beliefs.

But it is still the best measure of what Americans think about this situation until you show me a better one.

And maggie, I provided both the methodology and a link to Gallup and the entire survey.

 

[Councilman]

Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

This is a brainer, most Americans know that Unions are a pert of the problem and not part if the solution.

 

[Walter]

Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions - USATODAY.com

Poll: Americans oppose weaker unions
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY Updated
MADISON, Wis. — Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law.

Its simple, if America wants STRONGER UNIONS allow all states the right to work. If the worker has the freedom to choose then the UNION HIERARCHY must treat the rank and file with more respect than using them as political pawns.

 

[MaggieD]

Of course you don't. As is your right. You can adopt any belief system you want and exclude any facts or information which endangers those willful beliefs.

But it is still the best measure of what Americans think about this situation until you show me a better one.

And maggie, I provided both the methodology and a link to Gallup and the entire survey.

This is much more on point with your reasons for this post:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided.

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think teachers, firemen and policemen should be allowed to go on strike, but 49% disagree and believe they should not have that right. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on February 18-19, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

To see poll methodology, search methodology at this link:48% Back GOP Governor in Wisconsin Spat, 38% Side With Unions - Rasmussen Reports™

 

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Re: Americans Oppose Weaker Unions

I do NOT see that in this study? Where is it exactly? Your opening line with a Princeton NJ dateline does not even match up with the opening line of the Gallup survey on its own site.

That's because it's not part of the survey. You think I made that quote up?

Labor Unions See Sharp Slide in U.S. Public Support