Thursday, March 8, 2012

Public support of unions higher than thought


A new Bloomberg National Poll finds unions with more support than one might suspect. 
Sixty-four percent of respondents, including a plurality of Republicans, say public employees should have the right to bargain collectively for their wages. Sixty-three percent, including 55 percent of Republicans, say states without enough money to pay for all the pension benefits they have promised to current retirees shouldn’t be able to break those obligations.